Most of the same advice applies, connect to your local startup community and use that to get intros to VCs. What do you find difficult about building relationships ?
If you're in London a number of VCs run open-hours where anyone can come along and meet them.
The greatest product in the world isn't the greatest if nobody knows about it. On the other hand, you could have everybody knowing about it but nothing actually worth knowing about.
I find it's a delicate balance. You have to work on the product but you need to go out and meet people too.
Thanks ig1. We're located in Vancouver BC. Unfortunately, neither of us are particularly schmoozy and generally don't have a lot of time on our hands. VCs and similar don't tend to visit the conferences here anyway, and we're quite a ways past being in an incubator (600k seed, imagn.com, 2 cofounders - 1 technical, 1 business).
9gag was doing a billion pageviews/month before they joined YC.
You should think of joining an incubator in terms of: if we joined this incubator would they increase the value of our business by substantially more than 6% that they'll take (or whatever stake). And if so you should consider joining one.
Vancouver does have significant conferences, for example the GROW conference in August had a pretty high-profile list of speakers and attendees. There have been at least a dozen or so companies in Vancouver who've raised VC rounds this year.
Almost all successful startups and tech companies will have connections to VCs (regardless if they were venture funded or not), so one good route would be to network with the founders of the successful startups in Vancouver and get introductions to VCs from them.
What about advice for UK startups, or even Scottish startups?