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A free founder’s guide to seed fundraising 📚
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A free founder’s guide to seed fundraising 📚
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Oversubscribed: A Founder’s Guide to Seed Fundraising is a free, 97-page ebook with everything you need to know about early-stage fundraising. It's the book we wish we'd had when we were first raising money for our startups.
As the founder of a seed venture capital firm, we often meet young, ambitious founders, who have everything they need to go out and build a great business, except for some of the basic guidelines and inside information and vocabulary that older, repeat founders and vcs have learned through experience.
Oversubscribed is perfect for when we come across those founders; it undoubtedly will help them get a leg-up in fundraising. In addition, this is now required reading for all of Chaac Ventures portfolio companies.
Pros:100% recommend this book not only to first time founders, but also repeat founders, VCs, angels, and employees at startups. Extremely useful
Cons:No cons, but would love an Audio version!!
Oversubscribed will greatly benefit anyone in the startup world - or thinking about getting into it. It explains everything from the key differences between angels and VCs, to why founders need multiple versions of a pitch deck, to how to manage a swift and successful raise. Max and Mike lean into their own experiences as first-time founders and aren't shy about sharing what they've learned, both good and bad.
Pros:Provides an insider's POV to help demystify the black box that is early-stage fundraising
Cons:More examples, case studies, and industry-specific tips would be great
Was fortunate to be able to read this pre-release and it's truly impacted at least one action or behavior each day since reading.
Pros:Activities and behaviors clearly laid out in place of generic advice (e.g. "create urgency") that is so common in the space.
Cons:No female-specific fundraising advice.
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Max and Mike offer a practical, accessible take on raising money learned from their own experiences in building their businesses. They are straightforward about their businesses, their goals, what they learned, and how it can apply to your own business. Everyone's advice is tempered by their own experiences, and rather than run from that, Max and Mike are upfront about what their businesses, their goals, their pitch decks, and their experiences, so you can judge how their advice fits with your own goals. I got to see the early stages of their businesses up close - and they reference my materials on financials - so I'm not an impartial observer, but that's enabled me to see how they processed their experiences, and I enjoyed reading their take on topic that's been covered widely, but rarely deeply. Instead of getting lost in the abundant advice available on the web about how to raise money, start with this.
Pros:Practical, accessible, grounded by founder experiences.
Cons:Targeted to tech businesses raising early-stage rounds
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