"From my standpoint as a pre-seed venture capitalist and a Black founder, the pre-seed stage is where we’re seeing underrepresented founders get overlooked the most." — Darrel Frater ✝️ Read Darrel's thoughts on the fallacy of vanity metrics: hubs.li/Q016DqZK0

Our Pitch Deck Analyzer uses our fundraising research to provide actionable insights founders can use when raising capital. For YC demo day startups (and others raising capital), get data-driven feedback and access to VCs — submit your pitch deck here 👇 hubs.li/Q016_Qbd0

When it comes to knowing exactly what to include in your tech stack to build an emerging fund, we leaned on the expertise of four emerging fund managers. 🛠 Here are the tools they use and why:

Always great riffing on new ideas w/ Adam O'Donnell! We chat about how PLG will be the dominant GTM strategy in the coming years and about how leading companies need to collaborate to win. Listen to our chat on the Sit Down Startup podcast by Zendesk: hubs.li/Q019yRKp0

Start up solo, or bring on a co-founder? 4 factors to consider tcrn.ch/37ODFlW by Russ Heddleston

Start up solo, or bring on a co-founder? 4 factors to consider techcrunch.com/2022/05/16/sta…

If you are starting a company or currently running your startup all by yourself, here are four things to consider when bringing in a co-founder (or not). hubs.li/Q01bxm5S0

During every fundraise you will here lots of no‘s. Together with Dropbox DocSend I created a little piece with some of my strategies to handle it. youtu.be/arzEYWGZEbE

Join me in getting Dropbox DocSend's report "The Funding Divide: Tracking Bias in Early-Stage Fundraising". Based on research, covering how gender and race can affect a team's ability to raise startup capital. try.docsend.com/funding-divide…

Did you miss Episode 311? Russ Heddleston of Dropbox DocSend & Dropbox joins Nick to discuss founding DocSend, Creating a Winning PLG Motion, and Data From 1000’s of Pitch Decks.

This step-by-step guide with downloadable pitch deck templates by Dropbox DocSend provides founders with actionable, section-by-section advice on how to craft their pitch deck at the pre-seed and seed stage. hivehat.ch/fldU1SuIkhpN Thx for the share Annil Chandel #founders #fundraising

When raising capital for DocSend, we heard many rejections, but were able to learn from the feedback and turned those rejections into a successful raise. Here are some great tips from serial founder and investor Maximilian Fleitmann sharing his insights:

Early-stage investing is operating like business as usual, and that's a trend I anticipate will continue in the second half of the year. Here's Dropbox DocSend's mid-year pitch deck interest data update: prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

In this post, Russ Heddleston explains what SAFE notes are, when (and why!) you should use them, and where to blend them into an end-to-end fundraising process using DocSend. hubs.li/Q01hxbX-0

For the third year in a row, we are reporting on trends in pre-seed fundraising. Our 2021-22 report shows that clarity and succinctness have become prime currency in pre-seed pitch decks. Join the waitlist to get the report, soon: hubs.li/Q01hxnY00

As a startup founder, I wish I'd had these amazing tools early on in the journey. They would've saved me so much time and money. Founders can now access Dropbox DocSend, HelloSign, and Dropbox with Dropbox for Startups:

For the 3rd year in a row, the Dropbox DocSend team has published the pre-seed fundraising report to uncover the nuances of what it takes to raise early-stage capital. This 25-page report looks at trends in pitch decks, VC bias, and much more 👇

When bringing a new product to market, it's easy to get caught up trying to make it the most optimal for a specific target audience. Dropbox DocSend turned that concept on its head and launched the product first, then saw who was using it, and doubled down: listen.hubspot.com/public/83/MarT…

The era of the specialist is over. Full-stack GTM athletes are taking over. For too long, GTM has been divided into specialists, creating a soul-crushing web of dependencies: - Sales needs a custom business case to close a deal, but Marketing is slammed. - Marketing has a