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How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

Both Sides of the Table

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Prabhdeep Singh: We were founded in 1998 to serve top professionals — then it was investors — who weren’t really learning from the dry, one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all industry reports and conferences available to them. GLG Share is really a membership more than a product, and we want to serve our members however we can.

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Travel Tech Company Stay22 Raises $750K As Event Travel Industry Calls for Change

ReadWriteStart

The company’s growth is largely thanks to its collaborators – Travelport, its first investor and incubator, lead investor 7 Gate Ventures, and Real Venture. Recent funding is being used to develop its product using predictive booking pattern algorithms and to expand its sales and development teams.

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Proud to Lead an Investment in SeedCX

This is going to be BIG.

This will include hemp and related products. If you're a startup investor, you have to take risk somewhere. You might take product risk if you think you've got the right team to build and iterate quickly. Biotech investors do it all the time. It's the same kind of judgement that any investor in Uber or Aereo made.

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StoredIQ Adds $10M To The Coffers

Austin Startup

StoredIQ , a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management solutions for eDiscovery, records and compliance management, today announced that it has closed $10 million in new investment financing and expanded its management team in preparation for accelerated growth.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

Both Sides of the Table

It was created to provide peace of mind to moms looking for safe, healthy products for their kids. They dropped their number one selling product and switched to a competitor’s product while managing not to lose a single sale. It could be a bubble or better balance of supply and demand. I argue the opposite.

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Finding your One Metric That Matters

leananalyticsbook.com

Reddit probably has a very high percentage of users who log in: it’s required to upvote posts, and the login process doesn’t demand an email confirmation look, so anonymous accounts are permitted. Someone uses your system, and their productivity means they don’t churn or cancel their subscription. “) are useful.

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