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#140 - Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

#140 - Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

FromY Combinator


#140 - Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

FromY Combinator

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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Aug 21, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.He’s on Twitter @harris.The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/***Topics00:00 - Intro00:42 - Seed fundraising process3:32 - Emailing investors9:32 - Parallelized fundraising process12:17 - Meeting with investors14:17 - Overcapitalization17:07 - Communicating your plan to investors19:02 - Evaluating investors 22:57 - Fundraising process for a Series A company27:02 - Meeting Series A investors28:57 - Post-Demo Day psychology
Released:
Aug 21, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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