Why Investors Don’t Want to Meet You & The 3 Phases to Getting a Meeting Anyway
Years ago I attempted to raise money for my first company, Flowtown, with my co-founder Ethan.
You know what we did? We cold emailed investors.
We figured “We have a startup, they invest in startups… so surely they want to hear from us”, and hoped our confidence would cut through the noise.
It didn’t work. Obviously.
They didn’t even bother to reply.
So we hunted for advice and came across Naval from AngelList.
Everything he said about fundraising just… clicked.
We put it in practice and successfully raised our of fundraising for Flowtown and I later closed my Clarity.fm round ($1.6M) in just 3 days!
I’ve taught it to over 100+ of my coaching clients and they’ve raised over $200 Million from investors.
Now I’ve made a new video about it so you can learn the process too.
It’ll be a shift in the way you think about raising funding, but if you’ve wanted to without first checking out approach investors do not even try this super-important video:
Exclusive Download: Fundraising Like a Pro — Learn the 3 phases of fundraising and a 7 week process for starting & closing your next round of funding
There’s 3 stages you’ve got to move through properly before you’ll have a chance with investors. Getting this right from the start made such a difference for me, and I know it will for you too.
- Research
- Track
- Connect
If you had investors for your startup, imagine the difference it would make.
You could focus on the bigger picture, hire a team to support you, and really put some fuel into your business’ engine.
Well in , I pull apart each stage so you know exactly what I mean and how to take actionable steps towards getting that investment.
I even teach you exactly how to get introductions with the best investors out there for your specific type of startup.
Check it out and be sure to leave me a comment letting me know your experience with raising money, no matter how good or bad.
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Dan Martell has advised more startups than his hometown has people and teaches startup founders like you how to scale. (Get the free 3 videos to grow your business here.) He previously created, raised venture funding for and successfully exited two tech startups: Flowtown and Clarity.fm. You should follow him on twitter @danmartell for tweets that are actually awesome.
Originally published at https://www.danmartell.com on September 23, 2019.
