How Do VCs Find And Fund Your Startup? – 4 Major Paths Of Deal Flow

Following up from the last article “VCs Suck? Here Are 5 Practical Ways For Entrepreneurs To Minimize The Pain,” this post is focused on the other perspective. VCs get flooded with business proposals, as you would expect the number goes up exponentially the more recognized the VC is and the more developed an ecosystem is. In general investors have four major ways of getting deal flow, listed below in a roughly decreasing order of hit rate. 1) Other Investors VCs and angels get significant deal flow from each other and you can classify these in three different categories. One is…...