Investors are giving you capital to make 10x, 20x, or 100x their investment. To realize this, there must be an exit. Here's how to speak to VCs about exit opportunities without scaring them off.

Dreamit alum Jose ‘Caya’ Cayasso from Slidebean discusses 5 big lessons he learned about raising capital and startup funding.

Too many startup founders don’t directly answer potential investors’ and customers’ questions during initial pitch meetings. As a result, they lose credibility, momentum, and the opportunity to raise new funding or earn more revenue. In this article, we share a simple acronym—BLUF—you can use to remind yourself to give direct answers to questions after you’ve pitched your company. BLUF, short for Bottom Line Up Front, will help you remember to not make this common mistake.

During a pitch, you’ll typically have one to two minutes to capture investors’ attention. If your startup has traction, you can use a Flashback Pitch Deck to wow investors and set your startup apart at the very beginning of your pitch. A Flashback Pitch gives investors a preview of your problem statement, solution, market opportunity, traction, and current fundraise. In this article, you’ll learn how to create a Flashback Pitch Deck and use it to great effect.

When presenting their competition to investors, entrepreneurs typically make two mistakes: they don’t have a complete knowledge of who their competitors are and they present their competitors using a Magic Quadrant. In this article, we delve into why you shouldn’t differentiate your company from its competition with a Magic Quadrant. We also take a look at why you should use a Power Grid to show how your startup is different from its competitors. Finally, we explain how to format your Power Grid to maximize its impact.

After pitching VC’s, the biggest mistake most founders make is not knowing the right question to ask to understand what they’re really thinking. But, what’s that key question? In this article, we share that question with you and discuss the importance of viewing your fundraise as a sales process. After all, you’re selling equity in your company to investors. We also share common investor objections to funding your business and how you should respond to them.

It’s not enough to speak with your customers and hear their thoughts. You need to hear their honest thoughts about your product and its potential value. Most early customers will only want to give your startup positive feedback and pat you on the back for all of your efforts. But, you don’t want a pat on the back or unearned compliments—you want to be punched in the face with honest and actionable feedback. When early customers offer you exclusively positive feedback, you run into the danger of getting false positives.

When pitching to VCs, one of the most frequent errors founders make is incorrectly presenting their total addressable market, or TAM for short. Perhaps because this number is hypothetical and dependent on so many different factors, some founders do not give it the time it deserves. In this post, we offer some tips on how to impress investors when presenting your TAM.

Under lean startup methodology, founders attempt to eliminate as much uncertainty as possible to create some order out of the chaos involved in starting a company. Failures are inevitable; but, great founders know how to fail quickly and cheaply, rather than trying to take on boatloads of venture capital funding to solve a problem with an approach that doesn’t scale or, even worse, to solve a problem that does not exist or is not that painful. Read more about strategies you can use to identify and de-risk key assumptions.

Watch this webinar to learn about the typical requirements for selling into and integrating with health systems, how different approaches to EHR integration will affect your company’s resources, the benefits of working with an EHR interoperability platform, tips for selling into health systems, and more.

Read the most important news in healthcare and health tech innovation and learn about upcoming events that might be relevant to your startup.

Read our latest news round up on tech trends in cities, real estate technology, construction technology, built world fundraising news, and more.

Health systems and hospitals face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges—chief among them is the threat to their connected medical devices. Providers use connected medical to improve patient care. But, by connecting these products to the Internet, they open themselves up to many security risks. To protect these providers and the patients they serve, several startups have focused on securing connected medical devices. This piece will look at the most innovative companies in this space.

Read about how a fast-growing physical security startup achieved a $540 million valuation in three years, how one company is revamping its security procedures after Russian interference in the 2016 elections, and more pressing cybersecurity news in this week’s SecureTech News Roundup.

It’s never been easier to start a company. But, it’s never been harder to grow and scale a company. That’s why we teamed up with the experts at HubSpot and Agathos to teach you how to implement an effective enterprise sales strategy at your B2B startup.

According to Goldman Sachs,  virtual and augmented reality (AR) will become an $80 billion market by 2025, and $2.6 billion will be specifically for real estate. The medium is extremely powerful. About 30% of the neurons in the brain are dedicated to vision, compared to only 8% for touch and 2% for hearing. Over the past week, Zillow announced the rollout of their 3D Home tool, which lets real estate agents show immersive VC views of homes for sale. Read about the startups innovating in this space.

Learn how startups like Sopris Health, Infermedica, Voiceitt, and Orbita are leveraging voice tech to improve every aspect of the healthcare industry.

AMOpportunities (Dreamit HealthTech S2019) recently closed a Series A round that it will use to expand its medical education platform to new U.S. hospitals and foreign medical schools.

We are thrilled to announce the newest Dreamit cohort, selected from a field of nearly 2,000 pre-Series A startups.

Dreamit UrbanTech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman joined Charlie Stephens (@charlieNYC), a real estate advisor at Cushman & Wakefield, for his “Leaders Live” series of interviews. Stephens has been involved in advising over a million square feet of tenant and landlord representation transactions within Manhattan and across the country since 2009. He has worked with clients such as Conde Nast, ING, Ernst and Young, and many more.