Are You Asking Questions Back?

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Yewsand: It's really important that you do ask questions back. Some early indicators, same as ibers, like, ok, how do they handle the customer calls? And how are they coming up with feature suggestions for the product? Yewsand: I would then follow up with the customer calls as say, had did o go? Like, what di they think? So often there would be this kind of joyous enthusiasm, like they were so excited about the space. The first meeting is usually the single partner meeting, which is the coffee meeting. For some founders it may happen with an associate or a senior associate or a principal.

Amber Atherton is the founder and CEO of Zyper (YC W18).

Iba Masood is the cofounder and CEO of TARA (YC W15).

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

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Topics

00:00 - Intro

1:16 - Seed fundraising for Zyper and Tara

3:26 - Tara's pivot

4:31 - Series A fundraising for Zyper and Tara

18:11 - Evaluating investors

23:46 - Meeting with associates and partners

30:35 - Raising a Series A as a female founder

39:31 - Fundraising psychology

41:46 - What not to do when fundraising

45:01 - Talking to portfolio companies about investors

46:21 - What it's like to run a Series A stage company

1:00:41 - The most important piece of advice for fundraising