the.com/fundraising
the art of turning a slide deck into someone else's bank transfer.
means the process of asking people for money to fund something you believe in more than they do, at first.
from from fund + raising, literally raising capital, though the modern startup sense dates to venture capital's rise in 1970s silicon valley, where pitching became its own performance art.
median timemost rounds take three to six months
vc mathfunds expect most bets to fail
no is temporarysame investor often says yes later, different round
warm introbeats cold email roughly ten to one