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5 Fundraising Tips From Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator Nov 05, 2024

Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator and co-founder of Initialized Capital, is one of the top voices in today’s startup world and one who generously shares insights and teachings with startup founders. 

We...

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5 fundraising tips from Canva's Melanie Perkins Oct 29, 2024

Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva, built it from scratch into the giant unicorn it is today. She was able to raise significant capital very early on, by relentlessly pitching many investors...

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5 startup fundraising tips - Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd Oct 24, 2024

Whitney Wolfe Herd is the first female founder to take her startup to an IPO, and one of the youngest female billionaires. Her rocky journey to success, leaving Tinder to found Bumble, is one of the g...

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5 fundraising tips by Jerry Ting, after raising $155M Oct 16, 2024

Jerry Ting is the CEO and co-founder of Evisort, a contract management software startup. He raised $155M for Evisort - so he has a lot of useful advice for startup founders.

He shared his take on fun...

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Paul Graham's tips on dealing with investors Oct 07, 2024

We looked into one of Paul Graham's classic essays on fundraising for some insights. In this essay, he gave the following 5 tips (among others) on how to deal with investors.
Here goes:

1. If it isn't...

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Do it by hand: 5 startup tips from Brian Chesky Oct 02, 2024

Brian Chesky of Airbnb is one of the greatest startup founders ever,  He spoke to Reid Hoffman (the founder of LinkedIn) on his excellent podcast "Masters of Scale", where we found 5 of Chesky's top t...

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Cut the BS - 5 startup tips by VC investor Guillermo Flor Oct 02, 2024

Guillermo Flor​, is a VC investor at GoHub Ventures​, an early-stage VC fund based in Valencia. Guillermo is also the author of an excellent ​newsletter​ for startups.

We hosted him at the Meet.Capit...

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Raising with only an idea? Do this - with Moti Elkaim Sep 18, 2024

AI has changed a lot in the startup market. It has become easier to deliver software products. According top startup storytelling expert ​Moti Elkaim​, this has opened the door to something that has b...

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Keep it short - with angel investor Katie Dunn Sep 18, 2024

Katie Dunn​ is an angel investor in multiple companies and a highly experienced startup advisor. Katie is also one of the co-founders of ​Power to Pitch​, which helps founders pitch and raise from inv...

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Traction is everything - 5 startup tips with Stefan Avivson Sep 03, 2024

Stefan Avivson ("Mr. Raw") has been having quite a wild ride. He's been founding companies over the last three decades. including 5 exits, millions raised, and also two crashes into bankruptcy. He now...

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The power of small habits - 5 startup tips by Luke Tobin Aug 20, 2024

Luke Tobin, a 3x exited founder, most notably scaling Digital Ethos into a multinational marketing agency before its successful acquisition in 2022. Luke now heads Tobin Capital, a venture capital fir...

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Diminishing runway? Do this - with Prateek Sanjay Aug 06, 2024

Many startups find themselves running out of cash, with a diminishing runway. It is stressful and challenging, but there isn’t a lot of good advice about this situation, besides the usual grind/diehar...

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