Fundraising
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Fundraising
So How Many Stars Is Enough? A Data Driven Guide to Fundraising as an Open Source Founder
Jordan Segalljordansegall.substack.com
I’m thrilled to announce Heyday’s $6.5M Seed led by @kevinthau @sparkcapital
We were fortunate to close our round before the market got crazy.
We’re sharing our fundraising process to help founders who are still in the thick of it.
Our process: 👇🏾
nametwitter.com
It is nearly impossible to convince a VC of a thesis they don’t already believe, so the key in fundraising is to ‘discover’ the right partners, not try to educate and convince…
In order to build conviction, we rely on founders to tell us a compelling story, almost always in the form of slides. We’ve funded companies almost entirely because of the quality of their seed decks. Poor deck? We’ll likely pass on the opportunity.
How to raise money before launch
