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How to Raise a Seed Round: Three Basic Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

The way the investor thinks about it is that, if you can’t figure out your way to network your way to [an investor],… then you’re unlikely to be able to network your way into hiring a great team, or network your way into selling your product to customers. (at In fact, in this new fundraising environment (with syndicates on AngelList , etc.),

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels,rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that theyhave less reputation to protect. 5 ] Another danger of less known firms is that, like angels, they haveless reputation to protect.