How to Ask Investors for Money & Tips After Pitching VCs | Dose 004

The questions founders ask matter. There are many good questions to ask investors, but this is the most important question you need to know. Here‘s how to trial close investor pitches and how to ask investors for money.

It’s hard to be a founder and not ask questions. Founder questions can derisk critical assumptions, uncover internal weak points, and signal to investors that you’re the type of person they should invest in. Picture the startup pitch; almost all have questions for founders but few contain great questions for investors. You can try searching for questions founders ask investors or even general questions to ask venture capital pitch listeners, but place this question above all others on your list. As you practice how to ask investors questions, consider these tips after pitching VCs. This advice does not discount lists of common questions entrepreneurs ask investors; those are still important. At Dreamit Ventures, we’ve found that after your startup pitch, of all the questions to ask a potential investor, this one question matters most.

What are the most important questions to ask vc investors? Here’s our favorite one in a short five-minute Dreamit Dose.

[mckeeverdesign]

Just used this tip in a pitch. We were the last pitch in a day full of them, and the interviewers said it was the best question of the day. Thanks!

[danielr]

Please, give us more videos on mistakes just like this one! I'm an edtech startup founder who's taking a break to become an expert on advertising. As someone that's healthily afraid of failure, I strongly believe that execution is the art of preventing preventable mistakes, which is a form of risk mitigation, if you follow. Mitigate all the risks of failure and you have no choice to succeed. ^^

[shubhangi]

Thank for this tip! My investor meeting is in the next 45 mins. I will use this advice today.

[saeidgholamimd]

Adam, thank you for your amazing videos. I have been learning so much from you in the videos. This trial close is a brilliant idea!

[tobins]

Love the advice. When I see a new entrepreneurs pitch it feesl like 80% of the pitch is focused on pitching the end user the product/service instead of selling the company to an investor.

What recommendations do you have in regards to finding and approaching investors? There seems to be a lot of services out there that look to take advantage of new entrepreneurs that are not familiar with the process.

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[anishmajumdar]

Love your videos.
I have small question though, we are startup at the stage of pilot launching, we now want to get into an incubation Or accelarator centre, so how would you suggest we close our pitch to them?

[Ken-ulll]

In the beginning, you mention there is nothing better than Google Slides for pitches. Is this sarcasm? It not, what do you mean when you said that?

[alpaykasal]

wait, what's wrong with Google slides? I use that bc I thought it was a preference for it's simplicity.

[eseanthony]

I really do not have enough to pay for a Financial Model template. Can i get a sample or a link to a free one?

[emillioncruz]

Hi please can you give me the speech how to confuse someone to invest in bitcoins

[simpleplan]

Yeah Google slides, nothing better to use than Google slides for doing these types of decks... Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣