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fundraising
A couple of big mistakes I see founders make in this next step. Number one, they go to their priority names first. Do not do this. Your pitch both in delivery, style, and messaging will improve so much with each meeting. Start with a couple of invest
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It's super easy to do. That should reveal a lot to you about how this investor behaves in tough times. I also find it's really important to be very vulnerable in this process. Talk about ambitions, inspirations, fears, childhood traumas. My mother ha
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...for the raise, and how would you advise on preparation in terms of documents? Pick a really good law firm. They will help you set up basically the agreements with your partners, which I think is really, really important. Like, this is sort of nothing
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How do they keep the LPs patient? They do it through impeccable communication and milestones, regular updates, clear cash flow cadences, and visible progress on their deals. You can shorten the time, but you can shorten uncertainty. Every clear updat
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It really has two halves, the trust and the transaction. See, together, they form the fundraise formula. And when you understand both, you can diagnose exactly why your raise is stalling and what lever to pull to get capital moving back to you better
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...about fundraising given that you've had to do it as a firm on a constant basis? I think most humans go from formal to fear. And one of the traps of our industry is you can only fundraise when things are very expensive because that's when everyone's o
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...been fundraising for seven or eight months. And what that means really is I'm cold emailing VCs and I get like one call a week with a VC and then it didn't go well and then I'm back to cold email and I'm doing everything I can to get in front of thes
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...fundraising process today because there's, like, a lot of unknowns that I think need to be addressed. If we think about, like, chronologically speaking, we decide on this fund size that we just touched on. Now we need to do some docs. What docs did y
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