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Fund your Startup Without Giving up Equity

Fund your Startup Without Giving up Equity

Equity is the most expensive kind of capital a successful startup can raise. In the long term, raising large amounts of equity funding early can change the entire trajectory of a startup. I have spoken with so many founders in the past few years that lament spending...
What Every Startup Pitch is Missing

What Every Startup Pitch is Missing

Most pitches get rejected and I think that’s a good thing. Hear me out. Funding your startup is just as much about the people who are funding you as the number of zeros on your check. If investors said yes more often, there would be far more startups aligned...
Podcasts to Help you go from Zero to Funded

Podcasts to Help you go from Zero to Funded

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt I challenge you to find a single founder that successfully navigated the funding world on their first try. Anyone who has raised money, successfully or...
Raising a Seed Round is Easier Than you Think

Raising a Seed Round is Easier Than you Think

Most startups fail before making it through the seed stage. Do they have to? Seed-stage investors are always on the lookout for new and innovative startups to invest in. They want to invest. Why is it then, that seed-stage investors say no to more than 90% of startups...