Brad Flora: I'm a group partner at YC, and one of the topics that we get asked about more often than anything else is fundraising. He says raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup after making something people want. The goal of this talk is to catch you up on how fundraising actually works today. We're going to do that by exploring seven fundraising myths.
YC Group Partner Brad Flora has seen startup fundraising from every angle: as a founder, as one of the most prolific angel investors in Silicon Valley, and now as a YC Group Partner. Brad has coached hundreds of companies on fundraising. In this talk, he shares stories and advice on how modern startup fundraising works.
Paul Graham Fundraising Essays:
http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/convince.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/herd.html
Geoff Ralston's Fundraising Guides:
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4A-a-guide-to-seed-fundraising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcevHkNGrWQ
YC Fundraising Resources:
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/2u-how-to-build-your-seed-round-pitch-deck
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6q-how-to-pitch-your-startup
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/71-how-to-get-meetings-with-investors-and-raise-money
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4O-raising-money-online-advice-for-startups
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3u-different-types-of-investors-and-their-incentives
Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/SUS-apply
Work at a startup: https://yc.link/SUS-jobs