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...also venture has changed really dramatically in the four or five years since I started investing. And so I I find that part of the game now is adapting to or or, like, really understanding what your strategy is and what role you have to play in the e
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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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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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...raising a funding round for our hypothetical company. We'll break it down by different stages in the 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 of
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fundraising is truly a slog. It's probably worse than it's ever been. It's the same on our end going out of the institutional LPs, by the way. And I think often startups and rightfully so, see closing around as a finish line, instead of a starting li
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...Valley venture firms, a plus plus plus firms would have been thrilled to have you come in. Why launch your own fund? I wanted to invest in the next generation of entrepreneurs, and that's really why not take a CEO job. And I wanted to do it in a way
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...a venture fundraise, you know, the reality of venture is it's all just the work. You know, like finding the people, paying the people, doing all that work. To raise the first fund, my own view is that you have to have a shtick, like something you bel
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So if you look at this chart here from PitchBook, this is from December, so it's slightly out of date, but it's mostly correct. We can see that a handful of firms have raised the bulk of the capital. And if we're going to think about the example of I
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How about we put ourselves in a position where we can get somebody like that in when you raise your next round, if it clears a certain threshold. What usually ends up happening is at first, they're like, I don't know. But what ends up happening in re
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gonna turn off everybody, you know, what's competition look like. So, there's plenty of risks. You know, most VCs don't actually want to do risky things. They want everything derisked and then they just want to invest on the upside. Okay. You needed
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...in in venture. It was hard. People did not understand 120 meetings for your series a. Yeah. That's right. And we ended up raising the series a entirely from one investor who it was actually more of a health care focused fund. It was really just a res
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to 200 x ARR with little signs of product market fit. Do you agree with me it's the worst place to be investing? Well, I think the problem is that there's the nomenclature, which kind of varies company to company. So, like, when I started trial pay,
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If it's less than point 5%, it's really not that meaningful. Now this could be bad as it means that they are unlikely to be able to provide you with the same time and attention they would larger checks. But then Jason Lemkin said before that there ar
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