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Analyze a business idea or model through the lens of a venture capitalist and identify key strengths, weaknesses, and red flags.

Generate an investor-style memo summarizing market potential, competitive advantages, and major execution risks.

Evaluate a startup concept for scalability, defensibility, and overall investment readiness with actionable improvement suggestions.

Formulate challenging investor-style questions to pressure-test the logic and assumptions behind a business plan.

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About the Venture Capitalist Sidekick

Every founder, product manager, and strategist knows that a high-stakes pitch meeting is not the place to discover a flaw in your business case. The Venture Capitalist Sidekick gives you a competitive edge by providing a safe yet challenging environment to pressure-test your ideas. It brings a sharp, analytical, and constructively ruthless perspective to your Miro board, helping you find and fix flaws before you face investors. Think of it as your secret weapon for building a truly defensible business.

How to use the Venture Capitalist Sidekick

Using the Sidekick is straightforward. You provide your business idea, Business Model Canvas, or strategic plan directly on the board. The Venture Capitalist Sidekick then gets to work, analyzing your inputs from the perspective of a top-tier General Partner. It returns its findings in a structured "Initial Investment Memo" that highlights your idea's potential strengths, identifies critical risks and red flags, and presents the key questions your team must be prepared to answer.

Why use the Venture Capitalist Sidekick?

Engaging with the Venture Capitalist Sidekick helps you move from a promising idea to a formidable one. It gives you the power to:

  • Uncover critical blind spots in your strategy that you might have missed.

  • Identify market, product, and execution risks early, when they are easier and cheaper to address.

  • Strengthen your arguments by focusing on what truly matters to investors: scalability, defensibility, and a clear path to market.

  • Build a more robust and "investable" business case that can withstand scrutiny.

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Miro brings teams and AI together to plan, co-create, and build the next big thing, faster. Miro empowers 100M+ users to flow from early discovery through final delivery on a shared, AI-first canvas. By embedding AI where teamwork happens, Miro breaks down silos, improves alignment, and accelerates innovation. With the canvas as the prompt, Miro’s AI capabilities keep teams in the flow of work, scale shifts in ways of working, and, ultimately, drive organization-wide transformation