Fundraising
Startup founders use these presentations when they go out to fundraise.
What are pitch decks?
This company began as a dating site and later evolved into a leading platform for professional networking.
What is LinkedIn?
This Paul Graham-founded organization, although technically an accelerator, has backed notable companies such as Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox through its batch programs.
What is Y Combinator?
This entrepreneur founded apple and Pixar
Who is Steve Jobs?
The Vanderbilts created their wealth through this industry.
What is the railroad industry?
If pre-money valuation is the value of a startup BEFORE funds are raised, then post-money valuation is…
What is the valuation AFTER funds are raised?
This startup, founded by Elon Musk, aimed to make online payments easier and was later acquired by eBay.
What is PayPal?
This firm is the only Bio/Med Tech VC Firm that the Rutgers Venture Investor Program is partnered with
What is JJDC or Johnson and Johnson's Venture Arm?
Who is Sam Altman?
He's the richest person in the world.
Who is Elon Musk?
The value of a startup is determined by this person.
What is a Venture Capitalist?
This term refers to a startup that grows rapidly without external funding, relying primarily on its own revenue.
What is bootstrapping?
This firm has the largest AUM out of any other VC firms
What is Insight Partners?
This American inventor and businessman is known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution, and early motion pictures.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This IBM model beat Garry Kasparov at chess.
What is Deep Blue?
This document, often issued in priced rounds, lays out valuation, liquidation preference, and board rights.
What is a term sheet?
This term refers to the strategy of acquiring smaller startups primarily for their technology or talent.
What is Acqui-hire (or acquisition strategy)?
Rutgers is invested in one of these firms
What is NVP Capital, Spark Capital, Accolade Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Shine Capital, Slow Ventures, Edison Partners, AIX Ventures, or the Column Group?
This entrepreneur, once the youngest self-made female billionaire on paper, founded a blood-testing startup that collapsed after revelations of massive fraud were made.
Who is Elizabeth Holmes?
This is the most-streamed song on Spotify.
Blinding Lights by the Weeknd
This publicly traded company is currently attempting to give venture fund access to retail investors through private tokenized stocks.
What is Robinhood (Robinhood Venture Fund 1)?
This essay was written by the founder of Anthropic and discusses slowing down development of Artificial Intelligence
What is "Pacing the Frontier?"
This firm, with offices in Menlo Park and beyond, was an early investor in Snapchat and Affirm, focusing on both enterprise and consumer technology.
What is Lightspeed Venture Partners?
These two people founded a pioneering technology company best known for Netscape Navigator, one of the first popular web browsers that helped launch the modern internet age in the 1990s
Who is Marc Andreesen and James H. Clark?
AI was invented in this decade.
1950s