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Pmarchive · “But I don’t know any VCs!”

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An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog

In my last post in this series, When the VCs say “no” , I discussed what to do once you have been turned down for venture funding for the first time. However, this presupposes you’ve been able to pitch VCs in the first place. What if you have a startup for which you’d like to raise venture funding, but you don’t know any VCs? I can certainly sympathize with this problem—when I was in college working on Mosaic at the University of Illinois, the term “venture capital” might as well have been “klaatu barada nikto” for all I knew. I had never met a venture capitalist, no venture capitalist had eve

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