Resources & Guides

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This chapter (and the links out to external resources that we have found to be useful) is designed to be your founder’s toolkit. It contains a curated set of guides, templates, articles and insights to help you hit the ground running as fast as possible. Instead of spending months hunting for the right reports, templates and financial models, you can find them here in one place.

This collection is a living repository. If you come across additional resources, whether that is new market data, relevant scientific reviews or practical templates, we invite you to share them with us so we can continue to strengthen this resource for the founder community.

Here is what is included:

Useful Reports and Articles:
A selected number of reports and peer-reviewed publications on contraceptive use trends, unintended pregnancy rates, scientific reviews, as well as studies on the acceptability and demand for male contraceptives.

USEFUL REPORTS & ARTICLES

Amboy Street Ventures Market Report:
A detailed market analysis by a leading women’s health focused venture capital firm. It contains quantitative insights into market size, growth trends and investment activity in the contraceptive space. It estimates the male contraceptive space as a ghost market of $10.2Bn.

AMBOY STREET VENTURES MARKET REPORT

Short Backgrounder Template:
A structured template for summarizing your company or technology in one or two pages. This is useful for sharing with investors, advisors and potential collaborators.

BACKGROUNDER TEMPLATES

VC Pitch Deck Templates:
These are two frameworks (from Pillar VC and Wilbe) designed to guide you through a coherent, data-driven narrative for your company. They cover the key narrative that investors are looking for, diving into the problem, solution, the science, market and team.

VC PITCH DECK TEMPLATES

Investor Tracking Template:
This is one of the most powerful tools in the entire playbook. This template comes pre-loaded with a carefully selected list of 400+ investors who have a known interest in this space, which can save you weeks, if not months, of research. Use it to plan your outreach and log your progress with your investor conversations. If you come across additional investors or have feedback to share, reach out anytime and we will update the sheet for the founder community.

INVESTOR TRACKING TEMPLATE

BD Tracking Template:
A tool to manage business development outreach, so you can maintain a structured record of potential partnerships, collaboration opportunities and strategic discussions.

BD TRACKING TEMPLATE

Development Financing Forecast:
A basic financial model to estimate cost of development from discovery to clinical stages, providing a first view of funding requirements and milestone-based capital planning.

DEVELOPMENT FINANCING FORECAST

Capitalization Table Template:
A flexible sample cap table model to help project ownership and dilution scenarios over multiple rounds. This is a critical tool for understanding and modeling founder equity.

CAPITALIZATION TABLE TEMPLATE

External Links:
A curated collection of important guides, templates and resources for founders. This includes detailed guides to spinning out a company from a university, more information around IP considerations, and additional knowledge around term sheets and venture capital.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Book Recommendations:
A list of recommended books on entrepreneurship, fundraising and company-building, ranging from guides on how to run a biotech startup to venture capital classics.

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

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