Y Combinator Startup Podcast

#140 - Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

Aug 21, 2019

37:44

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The Key to a Successful Fundraise Is Parallelization

02:21

How Important Is Your Unique Insight to Investors?

02:13

What Are Your Pro Tips on Figuring Out That Year After Demo Day?

05:50

Introduction

3min

Emailing a Seed Stage Investor

2min

How Important Is Your Unique Insight to Investors?

2min

How to Manage Process and Leverage in Fundraising

2min

The Key to a Successful Fundraise Is Parallelization

2min

Investor Meetings Are Different From Customer Meetings

3min

Startups Have to Move Quickly, Right?

2min

Do You Still Expect More From Your Funding?

2min

How to Evaluate Seed Investors and Angel Investors?

4min

10.

Series a Fundraising - What's the Process?

5min

11.

How to Email Series a Investors

2min

12.

What Are Your Pro Tips on Figuring Out That Year After Demo Day?

6min

13.

What Makes You Happy?

3min

Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.

He’s on Twitter @harris.

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.

Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

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Topics

00:00 - Intro

00:42 - Seed fundraising process

3:32 - Emailing investors

9:32 - Parallelized fundraising process

12:17 - Meeting with investors

14:17 - Overcapitalization

17:07 - Communicating your plan to investors

19:02 - Evaluating investors

22:57 - Fundraising process for a Series A company

27:02 - Meeting Series A investors

28:57 - Post-Demo Day psychology