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What is This Site About?
One-stop show for content, training, and resources for entrepreneurs and investors.
Find blogs, guides, videos, and podcasts that are designed to be actionable and no-bs in helping you start, scale, learn, or invest smarter.
Start out in the “Education Section” to explore the 1,500 blogs.
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What Do You Want to Learn Today?
You’ll find a tonne of topics, but here are a few for you to get started:
Fundraise Like a Pro
Understand the basics of how to run a process, how to reach out to investors, or how to answer questions from investors.
Manage Your Cap Table
Step by step course to learn how to build and maintain your cap table up to series A with a free template
See Real Pitch Decks
Largest collection on the internet with hundreds of decks that raised money from investors
Who
Who the Flark is Alexander?
Welcome to my blog. I consult investors and founders on business model strategy, fundraising and anything nerdy you’re stuck with.
I’ve worked in M&A, VC, and founded and scaled a lot of companies including 3 unicorns.
Taught at Top Business Schools
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Benefit from one-on-one consulting calls to understand your most important challenges and figure out the solutions to them, calibrated to your unique circumstances.
App Social Financial Model
You distribute your startup on Android and Apple stores and make money charging for in-app services. You have aspirations for virality to drive your user adoption.
Learn moreEcommerce Financial Model
For ecommerce startups that sell physical goods such as fashion, food, supplements. Ship from your own warehouse. This was originally based on a fast fashion ecommerce startup I invested in.
Learn moreEnterprise SaaS Financial Model
You're a complex enterprise SaaS startup with a long and complex sales process with multiple fee streams which is impossible to model! You might have enterprise, consumer and SME customers (Don't need to do all 3 but they are coded).
Learn moreMarketplace Financial Model
Startups that are a real marketplace. There is both a supply and demand side (Both are modelled specifically). Think Etsy, eBay, Uber etc. The model covers listings, ads, member, payment, transaction, and affiliate revenue streams.
Learn moreSaaS Financial Model
SaaS startup with monthly and annual contracts. Self-onboard and sales supported customers. Think Buffer, Zapier, Hubspot, or Xero. Cohort model with all the capability you expect including expansion revenue, churn and full marketing funnel.
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