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The Importance of Setting Goals for Fundraising

Jason Lemkin always tells me that the best investors are those that simply know the benchmarks required for the next round. I think there is quite a bit of truth to that now I want to be clear fundraising is not success right fundraising is not the goal the number on that board is not X million dollars we hope to raise in a year thenumber on that board right unicornYeah yeah the number on the board is the key metric that shows the business is healthy that you're making something people want and getting better at delivering it and making it frankly they go through a process pretty often, but Gary has spent more hours with founders over the last decade than any other investor who's ever had these conversations particularly

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