Interactive guides and templates built by founders for founders
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RocketGuides by M13
Explore M13 RocketGuides—your go-to masterclasses for building a successful startup. From perfecting your pitch deck to writing standout investor updates, our expert-crafted guides provide insider tips, real examples, and step-by-step strategies to help you to help you execute with confidence.
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Building Your Early-Stage Fundraising Deck
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Your New Hire Onboarding Checklist
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Early-Stage PR & Comms Templates
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Automating Workflows with AI
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Your Template to Crafting Investor Updates
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Building an Impactful Board Deck
✨ Featured RocketGuides:
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Building Your Early-Stage Fundraising Deck
💰 FUNDRAISING EARLY-STAGE ▶️ PRESENTATION
Raising a seed or Series A round? Our comprehensive guide walks you through every. single. slide. your potential investors will want to read, from introducing an interesting problem you’re solving, to a strong product roadmap, to defining key metrics for your startup’s success.
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New Hire Onboarding
HIRING PEOPLE OPERATIONS TEMPLATES
Our latest RocketGuide provides a step-by-step approach to seamlessly integrate new hires into your team. From building clear goals to fostering connections, this guide is designed to set your new employees up for success from day one!
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Early-Stage PR and Communications
📣 COMMS BRAND TEMPLATES
The PR RocketGuide is chock full of helpful intel and templates, including:
An interactive brand flywheel that shows how all the pieces of a scalable brand comms function fit together, even at the early stages
An example fundraise announcement that identifies the basics you should cover for a traditional press release
A fundraise announcement timeline—and an accompanying template you can download—to help you identify what tasks to kick-off in the months, weeks, and days leading up to your announcement
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Crafting Investor Updates
📣 COMMS 🤝 INVESTOR RELATIONS TEMPLATES
Investor update emails are a crucial part of effective communication to help you leverage your investor network. They’re your opportunity to share your progress, celebrate your wins, and ask for help where you need it.
In this interactive guide, we cover everything from deciding what metrics to include to finding the sweet spot between under-sharing and oversharing—so you can transform your updates into irresistible must-reads.
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AI Workflow Automations in 2024
TOOLKIT AI PRODUCTS & APPS
There are seemingly endless AI tools out there to help you do your job more efficiently, and you might not have time to test them all. So we did it for you. Dive into our curated selection of the top AI tools, carefully selected to meet the needs of startup founders—from AI meeting assistants to content generators to customer prospecting and more.
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