Would You Have Invested? 7 Lessons In How Venture Capitalists Decide

Hindsight is 20/20 — once a company has succeeded its success almost seems pre-ordained. But when it is just starting that is hardly the case, in fact, chances are if you poll even experts the consensus will be the company will fail. Divining whether a particular idea will actually beat the odds is essentially why venture capital exists. This post presents the core framework by which VCs make decisions and identify a winner — like Microsoft pictured above. Frameworks are not exhaustive and there are always exceptions, consider this a practical guide for creating your 12-15 slides that will serve…...