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Ask HN: Best way to go about pitching a VC that's coming to your school?

4 点作者 polymath21超过 15 年前
So I'm currently in my last year as a CS Major at a well known university. A prominent and well known VC/entrepreneur, who received his Computer Science MS from my university and whose fund is relatively young but has been featured on TechCrunch multiple times, is coming this Friday to speak to top CS students about "your career aspirations and opportunities for you through his firm."<p>One of my partners and I were invited (our other partner has already graduated). I've already written a comprehensive business plan for our idea, which is what I used that to recruit my 2 partners. I'm going to update it for this meeting specifically. We are also starting development on a beta version.<p>We were originally going to apply to YCombinator and a few other similar programs for summer, but seeing that this famous VC is coming to speak specifically to students like us, what is the best way to go about this?<p>At a minimum, we are looking for advice and mentoring. If we were to dream, he would give us seed funding just like that. We are hoping to land somewhere in between.<p>1) I am lacking the financials for my business plan. I have no historicals really to base my financial projections off of. I don't have access to the financial information of relevant private companies, whose data could help me get a sense of what's typical. Even so, should I somehow just put together whatever I can? I constantly read about how investors want to see financial data, but really, they're just guesses! Not sure what to do for this.<p>2) In addition to a business plan, should I create some sort of 10 piece slide deck, like the one suggested in Art of the Start?<p>3) Any other tips? Something I'm not mentioning that would allow you to provide better advice? Let me know.<p>We really just don't want to squander such an amazing opportunity. Thank you in advance.

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pg超过 15 年前
A VC coming to a school is not looking for plans so much as people. Unless he has specifically asked for formal presentations, you're better off just talking informally and intelligently about possible startup ideas, rather than making the conversation be about stuff you're probably bad at, like business plans and slide decks. Just seem smart and energetic.
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mlLK超过 15 年前
If I had the luxury of talking with a VC one-on-one I'd formulate very open-ended questions while trying to keep discussion domain as general and abstract as possible.<p>In other words, steer clear from case studies and CS specific ideas, put yourself in the shoes of a VC, and figure-out what makes this guy tick (milk him for his experience not his judgment).<p>Keep your questions short, in his/her language, and open.