Dasha Kroshkina
San Francisco, California, United States
6K followers
500 connections
San Francisco, California, United States
6K followers
500 connections
About
Serial startup founder with background in B2C, subscription SaaS, community driven and…
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7 startup life hacks we learned about surviving COVID-19
7 startup life hacks we learned about surviving COVID-19
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Contributions
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What are the best practices for creating a pitch deck for angel investors?
As a second time founder who raised $5M and mentored 30 founders to successfully raise, I recommend focusing on 3 core parts if you are pre-seed stage (pre revenue and pre exciting traction). - Problem - How big is the market - Team At this stage it’s not about the solution. Even though as a founder it’s all you want to talk about ;) At early stage investors want to see a clear problem that has HUGE market (for many unicorns) and that you are the best team to solve it (domain expertise, market insights and execution). Because great team at a big enough market can pivot 100 times and still find a solution.
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What are the best practices for creating a pitch deck for angel investors?
Also remember that investors spent on average less than 90 sec on your deck. Meaning 5-7 sec per slide. If you can’t read your own slide within 5 seconds - cut it. Use titles to communicate the core message from the slide. Ideally investors can get a clearly and catchy story just by reading titles of your slides.
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What are the best practices for creating a pitch deck for angel investors?
As a second time founder who raised $5M , pitched to hundreds of investors and went through Techstars and Berkeley SkyDeck, I’ve learned that one thing about raising from angel investors. Pitch to those people who organically understand the problem you are solving. They have experienced it first hand or are top managers in companies in this space or founder of late stage startups in this space. Find those and emphasize in your pitch and deck on the problem (that’s the core thing that should be clear to EVERYONE) and about you (why you are the best team to solve this problem). And the rest is making them excited and finding this interpersonal magic.
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📚 A guide to seed fundraising from Y Combinator I was surprised to find that YC removed the Series A fundraising guide from their website. Instead,…
📚 A guide to seed fundraising from Y Combinator I was surprised to find that YC removed the Series A fundraising guide from their website. Instead,…
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Having access to the venture (or close to) network can play a crucial role to your startup survival at early stages. Because that’s where all first…
Having access to the venture (or close to) network can play a crucial role to your startup survival at early stages. Because that’s where all first…
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Started seeing early signs of burnout. Honestly, it’s not surprising. In the past 7 years, I’ve had only 5 proper vacation days—3 years ago. Since…
Started seeing early signs of burnout. Honestly, it’s not surprising. In the past 7 years, I’ve had only 5 proper vacation days—3 years ago. Since…
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Experience
Education
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Activities and Societies: -Created and developed completely new innovative derivative within master research thesis; -CFA Research Challenge overall China #2 place and the Best Presentation Award (as a member of the team); -Awarded with CFA Awareness Scholarship; -2018 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge participant; -Completed "Finance and Innovation" training program in the USA, organised by Stanford University and Silicone Valley fintech companies; -SAIF Networking and Marketing Ambassador
#1 in Asia and #14 in the world Master of Finance program (Financial Times ranking 2017), focused on quantitive finance and financial engineering. Core course: Financial Math, Derivative Securities, Advanced Financial Econometrics, Quantitative Analysis and Methods, Simulation Tools for Quantitative Finance, Corporate Finance, Accounting, Securities Analysis and Valuation, Fixed Income Securities, Risk Management
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Activities and Societies: Ranked top5, full government scholarship holder. Chairman of Student Research Society, organized 4 international student scientific conferences, 20 events with top industry professionals
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Bank Santander scholarship holder
Licenses & Certifications
Publications
Honors & Awards
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Global Winner
Seedstars
Became the first ever female global winner is Seedstars Global Competition - the largest startup competition in emerging markets (5,000 startups from 96 countries) and won $500k prize!
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Next Generation Women Leaders Award
McKinsey
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CFA Awareness Scholarship
CFA Institute
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CFA Institute Research Challenge
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Overall China second place award as well as the best presentation award
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Global Impact Scholarship
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$30,000 grant for Master of Finance program, SAIF
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President Scholarship for education abroad
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One out the country's 40 recipients of the highly prestigious Award of the President of the Russian Federation
Languages
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Русский
Native or bilingual proficiency
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English
Full professional proficiency
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Spanish
Limited working proficiency
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Chinese (Mandarin)
Limited working proficiency
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As active fundraising session is starting soon, it’s the very best time to start reactivating your network and start building investor pipeline. I…
As active fundraising session is starting soon, it’s the very best time to start reactivating your network and start building investor pipeline. I…
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