Fund Raising 101

Nasser Ghanemzadeh

@ghanemzadeh

Cover of Fundraising Field Guide

“Don’t look up for Easy Money, search for the Smart Money”- Matias Honorato

Raising

Terms Valuation

Death byOvervaluation

“Too much money too early often fucks companies up”- Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures

“Too much money right after you hit your stride fucks companies up”- Mark Suster

Ash Maurya

@ghanemzadeh

Time

Trac

tion

Problem/Solution Fit

Product/Market Fit

Growth

Which stage are you at?It's very important to know.

Postmates scale

 116 weeks to get to 500K deliveries, 20 weeks to 1M & 10 weeks to 1.5Mrbnb

If you are in “Seed”, don’t act like “Series A”

Series A

Seed

Pre Seed

To. 15M

To. 50M

To. 800M

To. 2B

Angel investorsAcceleratorsFamily and friendsBootstrapping

Angel groupEarly stage VCs

Later stage VCs

3-6 months 6-15 months 12-18 months

●Most of the money is spent in acquiringnew customers●Building the team to run the business

● The funding is spent inbuilding the product to be able to support a bigger base of customers/users

● Customer discovery● Changing and

modifying idea, product and business model

Amount of Funding

Time

Abdullah AlshalabiAbdullah Alshalabi

To: Tomans

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Nasser Ghanemzadeh

@ghanemzadeh