EP 264 Questions Founders Need to Ask Investors During the First Meeting

Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons

Founders – you work so hard to be prepared for investors' questions during your pitch presentations.
But are you qualifying those investors?
Your time is valuable, and you need to minimize the chance of wasting your time with investors who will not invest in your startup.
Our guest, Alex Iskold, is a 4x founder, a software engineer, an investor in over 150 startups, and the Founder and a Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures, where he leads pre-seed rounds, backs visionary founders who are creating technologies of the future, with a specific focus on biotech, deep tech, platform and API companies.
Alex writes one of the top startup blogs (a personal fave!), called Startup Hacks, and is a life-long learner and deeply interested in Complexity Science and Systems Thinking. (https://www.startuphacks.vc/)
Prior to founding 2048 Ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director of its NYC program. He was also the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO).
Alex currently serves as a Coach and a VC in Residence at the Harvard Business School, and he previously taught an award-winning undergraduate computer science class at NYU.
11 Questions Founders Need to Ask Investors During the First Meeting
https://www.startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/09/21/11-questions-founders-need-to-ask-investors-during-the-fist-meeting
30 Questions Investors Ask During Fundraising
https://www.startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/09/13/30-questions-investors-ask-during-fundraising
To learn more about 2048 Ventures, please visit: https://www.2048.vc/
Follow Alex via:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiskold
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iskold/
Startup Hacks: https://www.startuphacks.vc/
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!
Ande ♥
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