A New Layer of Connectivity Between Early Stage Founders & Professional Investors
MindsetXchange goes beyond a Founders ability to complete a pitch at a single moment in time, and allows early stage companies to curate a network of professional investors who may track their performance overtime. By hedging against 'Point In Time Risk', members of MindsetXchange may increase their odds of partnering with the right financial partners at the right time.
raising capital is tough
MindsetXchange Adresses The Many Challenges Of Capital Raise
Addressing The Many Challenges Often Not Discussed
Most Founders are familiar with blanket investor marketing and LinkedIn invites. But are we taking an honest look at all of the challenges associated with early stage capital raise?
Your Ability To Go Beyond The Pitch
Founders are often capable of a great investor pitch. However many are not familiar with the comprehensive nature of Investor Due Diligence, the process after the pitch and before the check. This reality is equivalent to sitting for a final exam for which you've never studied. Therefore your ability to Go Beyond The Pitch is directly correlated to your success.
Addressing 'Point In Time Risk'
'Point In Time Risk' refers to the risk most Founders face when an investor assesses their opportunity and all associated assumptions about their business model, at a single point in time. Founders don't often have the luxury of allowing interested parties to assess their performance over time, as business models gain traction and empirical evidence builds.
Curating A Network Of Investors
It doesn't mean an investor is not interested if they don't invest. It may mean that there a few things they need to see first before an investment is achievable. Many successful raises occur after the company and fund have built a strong relationship. Thus, Founders need a mechanism which allows them to curate relationships over time.
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Your Live Investor Due Diligence (IDD) Report
The Benefits Of Creating & Updating An IDD Report
MindsetXchange contains hours of instructional video content, as well as topical insights from real VCs, to assist you in building and updating a Live Investor Due Diligence (IDD) Report.
Factors Utilized To Make Investment Decisions
Most investors / funds conduct due diligence utilizing the same primary factors. This point was proven by over 75 professional early stage investors in Mindset's IDD Investor Interview Series. To increase your odds of success, MindsetXchange provides hours of instructional video content which allows you to understand how each of these factors relate to your investment opportunity.
Hyper Fluent Context & Descriptions Which Instill Confidence
Going Beyond The Pitch involves a Founder's ability to not only comprehend the factors which make up the IDD process, but to also be able to relate them to their own business model in a hyper fluent manner. Having a command of these important topics allows Founders to build a greater level of confidence with investors, and creates investor engagements which evolve beyond just products and features.
Static Investor Reporting vs. Benefits Of Live Investor Reporting
To create a continued hedge against 'Point In Time Risk', MindsetXchange allows you to update your Investor Due Diligence (IDD) Report at any time, thus creating a live reporting feed which reflects your company's ongoing evolution. Keep prospective investors up to speed on your continued evolvement, and display your growing knowledge and associated market outlooks.
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Quarterly Investor Performance Reports
The Ability To Provide Systematic Investor Reporting
To completement your Live IDD Report, MindsetXchange also provides the ability to input Investor Performance Reports at any time.
Staying Relevant After You've Captured Their Attention
Founders are not immune from 'Point In Time Risk'. Implementing tools and practices which hedge against this reality are the only remedies. That is why MindsetXchange created Investor Performance Reporting. Although recommended at a minimal quarterly interval, input unlimited performance reports to stay relevant with your growing audience of prospective investors.
Reporting Qualitative & Non Qualitative Performance
In the early stages of a startups evolution, not all companies have the luxury of early revenue. That is why our Investor Performance Reports allow for Qualitative and/or Quantitative updates. Pre revenue / pre customer members may highlight their qualitative traction. While later stage companies may allow investors to track all typical quantitative KPIs, and everything in between.
The Significance Of Building Rapport Over Time
If you're successful in building investor interest, yet 'Point In Time Risk' impedes your ability to transition that interest to investment, Performance Reporting allows investors to analyze your growth and trend lines. Giving them a clearer picture on if and/or when you may reach their orbit. Traction Monitoring can create new reasons for engagement and subsequent greater rapport.
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Mindset Registered Investor Network
Share With Mindset Registered Investors (MRI), As Well As Your Own Network
Allow Mnidset Registered Investors to review your IDD Report and Performance Updates, as well as investors you choose to provide access to.
What Is the Mindset Registered Investor Network?
Since 2021, Mindset has conducted an outreach program to the over 5,000 professional early stage investors / funds in the U.S. Participating funds complete the Mindset Investment Criteria Form, which provides the investor's primary investment related prerequisites. This information is used to show you which funds may be a fit for you, and allows investors to screen against their preferred criteria.
Investor Screening, Watchlists & Private Messaging
MRI participants may screen their preferred criteria against profiles like yours to identify opportunities. MRIs may add your profile to their private watchlist to track your performance / updates over time. MRIs may also choose to send you a private message to engage and/or request information. Receive private email alters each time you are added to watchlist or receive a private message.
Providing Access To Your Own Network Of Investors
In addition to the Mindset Registered Investor Network, MindsetXchange also allows you to build profiles within the portal for prospective investors within your own network. Simply create a profile included a password, and provide your network a private link and access to your Live IDD Report as well as all of your Investor Performance Updates. Add and remove investors at any time from within your secure online portal.
Build Your Professional Early Stage Investor Network Today & Allow the Mindset Registered Investor Network to track your qualitative and quantitative performance overtime.
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