Chris Tottman

🛑 The Most Dangerous Document a Founder Will Ever Sign A term sheet looks simple. Three to five pages. A number at the top. A feeling of relief. That’s the trap. Founders read term sheets like ...

📉 A £100m exit can still disappoint. Not because the company failed. Because dilution quietly rewrote the outcome. Founders anchor on the headline. Investors anchor on ownership, MOIC, and time...

Only 1% of pitch decks secure venture capital, why? The difference lies in details you might be overlooking. Discover the must-have slides that make investors say 'yes' (according to Sequoia Capi...

The founder paradox: Why experience can be both an asset and a liability in startup success. Are you overvaluing founder experience? Think twice. Serial entrepreneurs aren't always a safe bet. ...

🔥 The 30 Second Investor Test That Decides Your Entire Fundraise There is a moment in every pitch that founders never witness. It happens before the questions, before the meeting, before the stor...

The Pitch Iceberg: What Investors See vs. What Really Matters Founders, you're obsessing over the wrong things. That polished deck? Your rehearsed pitch? Those inflated projections? They're jus...

Founders, you're negotiating wrong. After years of watching you get fleeced, I've seen one mistake more than any other: Treating VC negotiations like a job interview instead of a chess match. Th...

Founders, here’s something I learned the hard way: The TAM-SOM Paradox: We often hear about needing a huge market (TAM) to attract VCs. Yet, when you're in the trenches, your world revolves arou...

This is the smartest advice you’ll ever hear, straight from Warren Buffett: “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” It sounds simple. But think about it: 📌 Skills compound l...

How Richard Branson started an airline… with no money. ✈️💡 Most founders think you need deep pockets to make big moves. Branson proved you need creativity, audacity, and the ability to convince ot...

🛑 The Most Dangerous Document a Founder Will Ever Sign A term sheet looks simple. Three to five pages. A number at the top. A feeling of relief. That’s the trap. Founders read term sheets like ...

📉 A £100m exit can still disappoint. Not because the company failed. Because dilution quietly rewrote the outcome. Founders anchor on the headline. Investors anchor on ownership, MOIC, and time...

🔥 The 30 Second Investor Test That Decides Your Entire Fundraise There is a moment in every pitch that founders never witness. It happens before the questions, before the meeting, before the stor...

👀 If I could give my past founder self one thing for fundraising, this would be it Stop pitching to the wrong investors ✋Solve this! When I was raising, I kept running into the same pattern. Not...

🚨 There is a spreadsheet founders glance at. Investors dissect it line by line. Early on it feels harmless. Something you update and forget. Later it becomes decisive. When real money enters th...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗔𝗖 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 💰 Investors pay consultants $25,000 to audit startup unit economics. Most founders walk into a raise not knowing their own number. Here's what changes when ...

Founders: Investors give you a "Score" that you never get to see 😱 "Yes"/"No" - 3 Critical Points - Want to know yours? Every pitch you give is being evaluated twice. Once in the room. And once ...

👀 This is the slide investors don’t show founders. But they all look at it. And if you get it wrong… nothing else in your business really matters. Most founders think they have a growth problem....

🚨 These are the questions I ask my founders. After 400+ partner meetings and 20000 pitches, I can tell in 5 minutes who actually understands their business… and who’s just repeating metrics. Here...

Warren Buffett broke his own rule to invest in Snowflake's IPO. He never buys IPOs. He bought this one because of a single metric most founders have never heard of. 169% Net Revenue Retention. ...