Top resources for building and scaling billion-dollar startups 🦄
600+ pages of knowledge and advice to launch & scale your next unicorn in 2024 🚀
👋 Hey, Linas here! Welcome to a special issue of my daily newsletter. Each day I focus on 3 stories that are making a difference in the financial technology space. Coupled with things worth watching & most important money movements, it’s the only newsletter you need for all things when Finance meets Tech. If you’re reading this for the first time, it’s a brilliant opportunity to join a community of 250k+ FinTech leaders:
Happy Easter to those who celebrate! 🐣 Especially to all the builders and scalers working tirelessly to bring their ideas to life. And change the world.
You better than anyone else know that entrepreneurship is tough.
It requires a deep understanding of the market, it requires vision, and more importantly - access to the right networks, knowledge, and resources.
It also requires luck.
And to get luck on your side, today I’m sharing the top resources I gathered throughout the years analyzing, building, and scaling startups globally.
It’s more than 600 pages of priceless knowledge from the top accelerators, investors, VCs, and operators that will serve as an invaluable compass for every entrepreneur and business leader.
Here’s what you will find inside:
A brilliant guide on how to properly do seed fundraising
The ultimate guide to fundraising for first-time founders
The best pitch deck template from the backers of Apple, Airbnb, Nubank, Stripe, etc.
The step-by-step founder’s guide to financial modeling so you can raise more money from VCs
200+ page deck of vital venture and startup insights invaluable for all startup and VC ecosystem builders (valuations, fundraising, exits, etc.)
A guide to venture capital term sheets that teach you how investments can be structured, the typical terms and terminology used in a term sheet, and the broader investment process
A 64-page study to master how venture capitalists make decisions (so you could better understand what VCs do and why they have been successful)
10 more top resources for startup founders, CEOs, investors & VCs
Ready to build your billion-dollar startup? Let’s go: