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* What is your current budgeting plan? If you are not cash flow positive do you know how long your cash will last before you need to cancel the project? e.g. 9m month run away cash. | * What is your current budgeting plan? If you are not cash flow positive do you know how long your cash will last before you need to cancel the project? e.g. 9m month run away cash. | ||
* How much money are you planning to raise? How are you planing to spend that cash? (budgeting plan) Are you planning (costly) investments in the near future? | * How much money are you planning to raise? How are you planing to spend that cash? (budgeting plan) Are you planning (costly) investments in the near future? | ||
* Do you see a way to grow faster (or more sustainably) by making certain investments (hiring developers, hirings sales reps, advertising)? | |||
* How much runway will you have after closing your funding round? How much money are you planning to raise in your next round? | * How much runway will you have after closing your funding round? How much money are you planning to raise in your next round? | ||
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== Investment == | == Investment == | ||
* Have you been looking for investors? Who did you talk to before? | ==== Co-Investors ==== | ||
* How are you planning to structure | * Have you been looking for investors? Who did you talk to before? With how many investors have you been talking? | ||
* Do you currently have investors? If yes who are they? | |||
* Which conditions did you have in your last funding round? (size, structure) | |||
* How is your cap table structured? | |||
* Do you vest your own shares? If yes over which period? | |||
==== Legal Structuring ==== | |||
* How are you planning to structure your current funding round? | |||
* How do you plan to structure the angel part of it? | |||
== General == | == General == | ||
* What would you say are the biggest weak points of you business model? What would you say are the biggest risks when investing in your company? | * What would you say are the biggest weak points of you business model? What would you say are the biggest risks when investing in your company? | ||
* Where do you personally think you have the biggest blind spot and is there a team member who covers it for you? | * Where do you personally think you have the biggest blind spot and is there a team member who covers it for you? | ||