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234. Trying to Tell Everything In the First Meeting
Two common mistakes: trying to tell everything in the first meeting, and not finding your painkiller solution.
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233. Changing CEOs
If the CEO’s job is to fundraise, what do you do when the best fundraiser on your team isn’t the CEO? What iink did was change CEOs.
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232. Bootstrapping Your Investor Network with LinkedIn
Despite not having a network of wealthy people that could invest in his startup, Tom built that network himself, leveraging service providers, LinkedIn, and highly customized emails.
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231. Seed Crust: What to Expect from 2024
After digging through the data, I lay out my expectations for the rest of the year.
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230. Seed Crust: The Dangers of SAFEs
Peter & Allyson share about some of the things founders should be aware of when raising money on SAFE notes.
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229. Seed Crust: Year of the Bridge
Peter Walker dubbed 2023 “The Year of the Bridge Round.” In many cases, the founders did what they set out to do, it’s just that the bar for Series A moved.
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228. Seed Crust: Seed To Series A Graduation Rates
Startups getting from Seed to Series A in two years has dropped by a third. It’s creating a “messy middle in the earliest parts of the market,” according to Peter Walker.
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227. Seed Crust: The Bifurcation and Its Unfairness
Fundraising is not an equal market and that feels shitty for most founders.
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Seed Crust: State of the Seed Market Q1 2024
Most startups at Seed are circling around, unable to break through to Series A.
We call this the Seed Crust.
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226. Rays of Hope, Paths Forward
There are rays of hope for the market, but the most important thing is to stay focused on what you can control.
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225. Seed Crust: This is the Seed Crust
The Seed Crust is the perfect storm of multiple market factors converging at once.
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224. Seed Crust: VC Allocation Shift
If all Seed & Pre-Seed funds shift just 5% of their allocation from first checks to follow-on checks, there will be $3 billion fewer available for first checks.