Fundraising 101
As I said in my first blog post, a CEO has two main jobs: Hiring and Fundraising. After leaving Scale, I spent several years as a GP at Backend Capital, where we funded over 140 pre-seed and seed stage companies. I’ve been pitched by thousands of startups. After being
← Back to blog As I said in my first blog post, a CEO has two main jobs: Hiring and Fundraising. After leaving Scale, I spent several years as a GP at Backend Capital, where we funded over 140 pre-seed and seed stage companies. I’ve been pitched by thousands of startups. After being on the founder side at Scale & Passes and the investor side at Backend, I’ve identified a few strategies to make fundraising rounds quick and cohesive. There are already a lot of public resources about the financial nuances of fundraising , physical and emotional prep for fundraising , and crafting an effective pit
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