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Ep30: Product, Platforms, & Poking the Bear; w/ April Underwood, former CPO @ Slack, and co-founder #ANGELS — Product Market Fit podcast

Product Market Fit

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Tips for Early Stage Founders Raising Money

You always have to work within the market that you're in and we've shifted very dramatically from a sort of a seller's market from an equity standpoint to an increasingly unbiased market so first and foremost one of the jobs of the ceo is to make sure you don't run out of money. It can be very tempting to find raise on investors timelines instead of your own timeline and i think that there is real risk there for example right now i imagine there are AI companies that are getting inbound that hadn't really intended to raise but they're getting inbound. Have the conversations get know the investor but take a beat and make sure that you have really developed your own point of view about

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