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Jan. 11, 2022

Raising a Series D. By Sid Viswanathan, Co-Founder at Truepill.

Sid Viswanathan Co-Founder & President at Truepill talks about raising a Series D and how it is different from earlier rounds. We've also touched onto the story of how prior to Truepill, Sid founded CardMunch, a business-card...

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Dec. 20, 2021

Finding a co-founder by CEO of Opal

Stephen Cobbe , co-founder and CEO at Opal talks about his journey with Opal, ups and downs and how to handle them. He also shares some recommendations on how to find a good co-founder and shares his personal experience in …

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Nov. 26, 2021

1-month accelerator - how does it work? By Brett Goldstein

Brett Goldstein , Co-Founder at Launch House talks about focusing on the new values instead of pushing old shit through accelerators and how exactly he approaches it. We spoke a lot about how the fundraising field has changed...

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Sept. 11, 2021

RSUs VS stock options - why do stock options suck so much? Explained …

Casey Fenton , co-founder at the legendary Couchsurfing and currently founder and CEO at Upstock.io talks about what RSUs are and how are they different from standard stock options. We also discussed why exactly Casey hates s...

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Aug. 14, 2021

Educational episode #9: step by step guide to equity crowdfunding. By…

Christopher Lustrino , Founder & CEO at KingsCrowd in this educational episode talks about equity crowdfunding, what are the major pitfalls in it and how to avoid them. He also gave a brief step-by-step guide on raising money...

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April 9, 2021

How Do You Evaluate an Investor Without Losing Them? With Scott Krivo…

Scott Krivokopich, Managing Partner at 1982 Ventures talks about qualifying questions that you need to ask your investors in order to understand who they are, how they work with other founders, and what to expect from them when hard times …

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March 26, 2021

Educational episode #8 - how do you construct financial models? By Ra…

This educational episode is about constructing financial models on early stages - what exactly do you need to have, what do your investors expect to see on the pitch deck and what are the major mistakes that founders make while …

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Feb. 22, 2021

Building the team - how, where and when do you start? By Nick Miceli.

Nick Miceli, Senior Tech Lead/Engineering Manager at Google talks about assembling the right team, choosing to go remote or hiring within your city, going through a dev-shop or contractors and other choices that the startup founder has to make while …

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Feb. 19, 2021

How to break into VC and how Array ventures invests in solving big pr…

Shruti Gandhi, General Partner and Founding Engineer at Array Ventures talks about how she managed to get into the VC space and what are the most valuable skills needed to do so. We also discussed investing in Deep tech and …

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Dec. 15, 2020

How to conduct customer interview if you don't have much money? By Sa…

Sandy Huang, Head of Product Growth at Alexa Mobile, talks about understanding your customers early on, running individual customer interviews, releasing surveys and doing the customer development in a lean way. We also spoke about how larger companies do that …

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Sept. 12, 2020

What is a Hedge Fund and can startups raise from them? By Ryan Zhang …

Ryan Zhang and Mi Tu, Partners & Co-Founders at Standard Capital L.P. explain how do hedge funds work and how can startup founders raise money from them. We also talked about investing in securities vs investing in startups.

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Sept. 7, 2020

Birthday Special!

This episode is featuring the team members of Fundraising Radio. I (your host - Konstantin Dubovitskiy) answer the FAQs that I get and the other team members present themselves and talk about the reasons why they joined FR, what they …

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July 15, 2020

Educational episode #7 - major mistakes while hiring new employees an…

This is the 7th educational episode by Fundraising Radio and in this episode Kristina Subbotina, corporate and securities attorney at Ross Law Group explains what are the major mistakes that founders make while hiring new employes.

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June 19, 2020

Educational episode #6 - using Foundersuite for your fundraising, by …

In this educational episode Nathan Beckord, the founder and CEO of Foundersuite explains how his software can be used by founders to accelerate and make their fundraising easier.

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May 16, 2020

5 documents that investors look for prior to investing in a startup b…

What are the top 5 documents you need to show to the investors before they will invest?

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