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A startup founder’s ultimate success is dependent on others buying into his or her vision. This guide brings you a structured process to build several different kinds of pitches: Elevator Pitch, One-Minute Pitch, a Simple Pitch Deck, and Long Pitch Deck.

In order to build a strong venture capital firm as a first-time fund manager, you need to create a strong Investment Thesis that clearly states your fund size, stage, focus, and geography. To help you get started, here is a simple fill-in-the-blank template.

Since 2009, we have seen thousands of investor updates - great updates, terrible updates, and the most common: no updates at all. This frustrates us to no end, because writing an outstanding update is simple. To help, we created this simple 5-Minute template.

VC Lab (http://fi.co/vc), by the Founder Institute, is a free virtual program that helps new managers to launch accelerators, pre-seed, seed or Series A venture capital firms globally. The goal is to help you complete your first closing in one year or less.

VC Lab is a new accelerator for VC firms, and in this step-by-step guide we show you how to complete the first major step in building a new fund: creating your investment thesis. This includes determining your VC (1) fund size, (2) focus, (3) UVP, and more.

According to CB Insights, only 1% of VC-backed tech companies are founded by Black Americans. To help empower Black Americans to build great startups, we have collected a list of over 700 organizations, entrepreneurs, and investors ready to help.

Today our society faces unprecedented challenges. We are calling upon members of the innovation community to commit to build impact companies, with a simple definition of an "impact company" and actionable/ measurable iKPIs (Impact Key Performance Indicators")

A comprehensive list of 200+ Accelerators, Incubators, Investors, and more with a focus on helping Black American founders start and build businesses.