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A Fundraising Survival Guide | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay

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YCombinator. Paul Graham essay: August 2008

Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want: most startups that die, die because they didn't do that. But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal.

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