Essential Fundraising Advice from Mark Suster - Both Sides of the Table

The most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face o... (2018)

There is an old management saying, “measure twice, cut once” which refers to the benefit of doing some planning. It’s the antithesis of “ready, fir... (2018)

You had an amazing meeting with an investor. Your product demo crushed. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space. The mee... (2018)

Whether you’re fund raising from angels, seed investors and VCs — as an industry we succumb to “herd mentality.” There are a few exceptions and ori... (2018)

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. The first in the series is “Lemons Ripen Early,” ... (2018)

I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much t... (2018)

Every entrepreneur wants to hear “yes” during the fund-raising process but I would argue that being too risk averse and not pushing hard enough and... (2018)

I was recently with an entrepreneur and talking with him about his fund raising process. He was in a later-stage financing round and was talking wi... (2018)

If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1 — controlling your psychology) you no doubt have heard m... (2018)

There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elev... (2018)

One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric in... (2018)

YouTube - Streamed April 22, 2020 The Black Swan Event: Funding in the time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (2020)