Valto Loikkanen

"45 min for the first meeting "to here the idea and meet the team" is plenty. Also few ideas comes to mind when thinking about this. 1. Agenda! - I think everyone funder should have "standardized" 1st. meeting agenda listed on their website and/or send via email along with the meeting confirmation. This agenda would list the expectations for the meeting from the funders point of view. This is the only way to make sure both parties come prepared. Maybe something like this: - handshake, (name) introductions, business cards, small talk 5-10 min. - pitch 15 min - Q and talks 15 min - No or yes for next steps 5min - next steps talks 15 min So no takes 45 min and if continued can be fitted in hour. if when its structured this way (like in a events are), should be good results. 2. As much as "getting to know each others" and making sure both sides are a basics match for what they are looking for, can be done online/before hand, will speed things up even more." - Valto Loikkanen

"I really like that, at some point I had the idea "fun(ding)" or got fun(ding), but that's even better." - Valto Loikkanen

"Thanks, that's pretty good :)" - Valto Loikkanen

"Valto Loikkanen, @valto (338 followers) Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Advisor Founder and CEO at www.growvc.com" - Valto Loikkanen

use primarily to back later-stage startups - Valto Loikkanen