Sergio Paluch 
Pre-Seed Funding: The Complete Guide Sergio Paluch September 25, 2024 This is a complete guide to pre-seed funding. In this all-new guide, you’ll learn all about: What is pre-seed capital What investors look for in pre-seed startups How do you know when you are ready to raise pre-seed capital How to find investors and secure … more
Every VC is different. There are thousands of funds and investors within those funds, and they vary tremendously even within a fund. Some love crowded spaces, some will only invest in blue sky verticals. Some will only invest in Ivy League grads, others don’t like high-pedigree founders. Some will only invest in startups that came via … more
Woman and multicultural founders are often judged with exceeding scrutiny. That’s why it’s important to find angel investors with a proven history of investing in diverse founder teams, such as those below. In this article, we rank angel investors with the highest investing rates in women and founders of color according to available Crunchbase data. … more
Product-market fit, or product/market fit, is often mischaracterized and misunderstood even by “experts.” Contrary to popular belief, product/market fit is not a well-defined state that a product or startup has achieved or did not achieve. Instead, product-market fit is the degree to which a product meets the needs of a particular set of users trying … more
The advice that single startup founders need co-founders to be successful is simply wrong. Before you rush into partnering with a co-founder, consider what the data says, potential downsides, and alternatives. In this article, I explore why there is ample evidence to suggest that co-founders are often not worth it and what to do instead … more
This is the full 34-page guide on how and where to find, reach out to, and pitch angel investors. This epic guide is meant to help any founder find angel investors for their startup, even if you don’t have a huge network or a diploma from a fancy university. My sincere goal is to level … more
Who are the top women angel investors? We’ve got a list of top female angel investors in the U.S. ranked by the success rate of their portfolios and investment rate. In this article, we look at the most active women angel investors, with at least 20 investments, as well as those whose portfolios had the … more
As early-stage investors, we’ve been hearing for years an undeniably loud chorus of founders lamenting that many venture capital funds, particularly top-tier ones, won’t even take a meeting with them because they lack a Stanford or Harvard University diploma. We also heard over and over again that founders who lacked education pedigree saw highly discounted … more
Beta Boom is happy to announce our investment in the pre-seed round of NOMA AI. The company, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is developing a machine learning platform that analyzes hundreds of real-time and historic clinical variables about patients to help clinical teams proactively identify risks of medical complications. The key differentiation of the platform is … more
Why can’t someone explain, in simple terms, what TAM, SAM, and SOM mean? Well, as it turns out, there is no common standard for calculating these measures of market sizing. But never fear! In this article we’ll take a close look at different ways to think about and calculate total addressable market (TAM), serviceable addressable … more
Announcing Beta Boom‘s recent pre-seed investment in WEDEVX. WEDEVX helps blue-collar workers such as taxi drivers and warehouse workers train for and land $100K+ tech jobs at top companies like Apple and Amazon. WEDEVX upskills people with zero coding background into high-paying and in-demand tech jobs by combining the intensity and efficacy of a bootcamp … more
Having spoken with hundreds of founders winning and failing to win angel investment, there are a couple of clear trends that come up repeatedly. Many founders want to skip right to blasting countless angel investors with emails, or they spend the majority of their time designing and re-designing their pitch deck. I’m yet to meet … more
Okay, now you know how to identify angel investors, vet, prioritize, and meet with them. There are a lot of questions about logistics that you might still have, such as how to take in the investment, how to track connections, and what’s the best way to email them. This chapter covers all those questions and … more
After you have qualified your angel investor leads and prioritized those with the highest likelihood of investing, it’s time to reach out to them. This is usually the part where founders get most intimidated and confused about what to do. Fear not, however! I’ve got some actionable and effective tactics that will demystify the process … more
Fundraising is sales, and as any good salesperson will tell you, the first step in the sales process is qualifying or vetting leads. In other words, it’s deciding, based on pre-determined criteria, how likely a lead is to buy what you are selling. You can either spend 10 hours trying to convince a lead that … more
How and where to find angel investors that are likely to write your startup a check? This chapter is all about identifying prospective angel investors. Chapter 5 is focused on ways that you can get on their radar. In my experience, it’s best to think of this process in these two steps because they are … more
Not all angel investors are the same. In fact, there is an incredible amount of variety among angel investors. Some angel investors are one-off investors that invest based on how much they know and trust you. Other angel investors make dozens of investments per year and are very sophisticated. Still other angel investors write $1-10 … more
The biggest mistake that I see founders make is not giving themselves enough time to raise money from angel investors. Nine times out of ten founders with whom I have spoken severely underestimate how much time it will take them to identify and connect with angels, built rapport, and get them to invest. Countless founders … more
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