A fundraising copilot for founders
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Mark Bugas

Flowlie - A fundraising copilot for founders

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Flowlie is the first all-in-one Fundraising Hub for early stage founders to plan their rounds, prepare their outreach, discover investors, and manage their fundraise. Special bonus: book a free fundraising consultation through the link on our landing page.

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Archie Winesett
What are the details of the concierge package I saw on the site?
Mark Bugas
Maker
@archie_winesett our concierge packages are bespoke plans tailored to each startup's needs. We start with an evaluation to understand your fundraising efforts to date, plans for the fundraise, and so on, and identify the biggest challenges that we can help solve. We've worked with founders on everything from structuring the round to negotiating term sheets, conducting a full audit of all investment materials, and establishing the process to help them reach your fundraising goals.
Buğrahan İmal
What an interesting project!
Mark Bugas
Maker
@bugrahan_imal glad to hear you think so. Happy to have you along for the ride
Ashley Nader
Congratulations on the launch Flowie team! This product is awesome
Vlad Cazacu
Maker
@ashley_nader1 Thank you for the feedback and support, Ashley!
Christopher Myers
Will I be charged for mobile app
Mark Bugas
Maker
@christopher_myers2 Flowlie is free to get started. We also have a premium plan, which is $40 / month. We don't currently offer a mobile app, so you'd have to login to Flowlie through your mobile browser (which you can do). Does that answer your question?
Billie Nash
Good job!
Mark Bugas
Maker
@billie_nash thank you!
Mario L. Castellanos
The biggest issues I find with fund raising, in order, are: 1. A complete disregard by funders to properly define what stage they will fund. For example, a pre-seed is just that, pre-seed. This has one interpretation - essentially paper napkin, pre-MVP, pre-revenue. I would expect some sort of traction such as customer surveys, use cases, financial and competitive landscape, etc. But in literal terms, BEFORE you plant a seed (the build process), you need dirt and water (funding). At seed stage, it's planted (built). Now you need to nurture it (mo' money). Following that are the alphabet rounds. This makes sense, right? My point in all this is your platform should very clearly categorize/define rounds from the onset, or it's useless (for me at least). And for that, you'll need the magic wand because you'll have to find a method (a list of Q's for investors, I suppose) to determine who is what. 2. While investors typically ask for (if not require) "coachable" founders, the investor world needs coachable funders. I've come across just one funder who stated in a response, "we could be wrong". That's great - that one time. Funders have this belief that because they've read through a thousand pitch dicks, they've seen it all. They've seen a bunch. That's undeniable. And that becomes monotonous. The wall (actually, blinders) pop-ups even faster when the founder has erred, not lied, erred. Their attitude is, "we don't have time to correct a founder's mistake". I get it. But funders should know better - starting up a start-up is very, very difficult. If the premise of the start-up is worthwhile, then it's just as worthwhile to set aside this presumed error until there is clarity. What I suggest here is develop and include a set of checks and balances questions for funders indicating if they have an internal method to avoid errors and false assumptions they make. If not, that to me is an indication they are not coachable (aka, willing to learn), thus won't be much of a partner later on. The automation part of all this is, a couple of little boxes to tick off that both these issues have been addressed.
Sally Rock
Flowlie is amazing, brilliant and I think it's really useful for startup founders and fundraising can now be faster and safer. Thank you Flowlie!
Evan Onusic
Interesting way to stay regimented
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