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What are investors looking for in 2023? #shorts

Name: What are investors looking for in 2023? #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-02-24T20:57:01+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Royston G King
Description: In this concise YouTube short, the speaker advises founders on how to pitch to investors in 2023. He emphasizes that investors are not interested in the…

24 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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In this concise YouTube short, the speaker advises founders on how to pitch to investors in 2023. He emphasizes that investors are not interested in the amount of time a startup needs to reach its goals; instead, they focus on the strategic next major business milestones and how the current fundraising round will fuel those milestones. The core message is to frame the raise as gasoline for a small fire—using the present capital to achieve specific milestones that will position the company for the next funding round. The speaker outlines the key questions investors care about: the strategic milestones ahead and the direct impact of the requested funding on achieving them.

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What they want to hear, once again, is get back to that analogy that I mentioned of you have to have this little kindle of a fire and you're asking investors for gasoline to pour on that fire to get to a certain milestone. Investors don't want to know how much time you need. They want to know strategically, what are the next major milestones that you have in your business that you need to reach to, to then raise your next round of funding. Okay. And then they want to understand how the amount of funding that you're raising right now will allow you to achieve those business milestones. Okay. Those are the questions that matter.