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Isabel Russ

Do You Really Need VC Financing?

A high percentage of startups that we rejected at Speedinvest fell into the category “not a VC case”. While the definition of this term…

5 min readJan 5, 2021

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Do You Really Need VC Financing?

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Isabel Russ

9 Fundraising Tricks From a Professional Fundraiser

Having witnessed countless fundraising processes from the investor side as well as having supported more than a handful myself, I can tell…

8 min readOct 28, 2020

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9 Fundraising Tricks From a Professional Fundraiser

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Isabel Russ

How to Create a Great (Fundraising) Storyline

The key to fundraising really is to be able to tell a great story, i.e. being able to provide a succinct and coherent explanation for why…

6 min readSep 28, 2020

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How to Create a Great (Fundraising) Storyline

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Isabel Russ

How to create a financial plan that fulfills early stage investors’ expectations

Once investors have decided that they like you and your business, they will all ask you for the same: a financial plan. It might seem like…

7 min readAug 19, 2020

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How to create a financial plan that fulfills early stage investors’ expectations

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Isabel Russ

Why you should not go fundraising now (if you don’t have to)

Covid19 has hit everyone quite badly and due to their fragile nature startups are especially in danger during this time of uncertainty…

6 min readApr 22, 2020

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Why you should not go fundraising now (if you don’t have to)

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Isabel Russ

Investors Should Respect Fundraising Founders’ Time

I spent the first three years of my career on the investor side, but having now been able to support fundraising efforts on the startup…

4 min readOct 14, 2019

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Investors Should Respect Fundraising Founders’ Time

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Isabel Russ
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Speedinvest

8 Reasons Why The European VC Industry is Lagging Behind

With only 7 per cent of the world’s population, the EU makes 20 per cent of global R&D investments and has a leading position in global…

8 min readJun 17, 2019

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8 Reasons Why The European VC Industry is Lagging Behind

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Isabel Russ
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Speedinvest

4 Common Reasons Investors Don’t Invest and What Founders can do About it

To set expectations right: at Speedinvest we invest in less than 1% of the startups that we take a look at (and that number even excludes…

5 min readMay 6, 2019

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4 Common Reasons Investors Don’t Invest and What Founders can do About it

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Isabel Russ
in
Speedinvest

Unveiling the Due Diligence Process for Early-Stage Startups

As with almost everything in early stage investing, it’s difficult to standardize what happens after the first introduction call between a…

6 min readMar 15, 2019

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Unveiling the Due Diligence Process for Early-Stage Startups

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Isabel Russ
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Speedinvest

What Founders Should Expect in Their First Call With an Investor

Whether you were introduced to an investor or you reached out cold: the real work for the investment round starts now. The following short…

5 min readFeb 14, 2019

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What Founders Should Expect in Their First Call With an Investor

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Isabel Russ

Isabel Russ

Passionate about understanding things and changing them for the better. Here: writing about my experiences in the European VC/start-up world

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