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...fundraising process. And at those stages, I will talk a little bit about how each element differs according to the round you're raising. Now first off, for 99% of fundraisers, it is a game of shots on goal. You need to have enough investors in the pi
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...that fundraising rounds are science experiments and you have to prove or disprove a set of hypotheses with this money, make sure you can clearly articulate what you need to prove and by when. Now please, for the love of God, do not say this is the la
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Bridgewater became the world's largest hedge fund with over $150,000,000,000 under management. He didn't start with transactions. He started with trust, and that's exactly what this formula teaches you to do as well. See, the Fundraise formula, it re
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...astronomical fundraising number of $2,700,000,000 in one year.
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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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Like, so that was our And we got to about 8,000,000 on on the basis of that. And then we had a lot more to go. We had to get to at least 25 for the first fund to make it viable. Okay. So thirty nine months. We have eight from that. How did the rest c
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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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And their process is three to nine months depending on when you start, how much you know them already. And it's a relationships business, and you have to build the relationship over time. Most of the people we talked to said no, just like anybody els
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to raise money. So I'm sorta glad that we didn't listen to those people, and we did it. But it was hard because I didn't have a team. I cofounded it with Zaida Howard, who was at IDP for nine years. So I brought somebody onto my founding team. She an
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Jude's, a typical kid that has cancer, they're with us for two and a half to three years. And on top of that, okay, we treat these kids for life. So I said to the board, Look, we've got to think about how we're going to fund this mission, not just fo
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...on fundraising, which is I think you should always be fundraising. This is where I get unpopular on things. So first of all, you you never wanna go to a VC asking for money when you need money because they will know you need money and they will screw
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