The Worst Fundraising Advice I Ever Received Came from a Venture Capitalist

People who know how to invest money aren’t always the people who know how to raise it

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readNov 1, 2021

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“Why does fundraising have to be so freaking hard?” I huffed. I was 18 months into building my first venture-style tech company, I was participating in a startup accelerator program, and my…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com