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Multiple passes at the target

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Startups, on the other hand, have lots of little failures and successes over time. Growing a company is a process with lots of little iterations over time--just like fundraising. A lot of startups, however, don't seem to realize this. Sometimes, we even have good product feedback. backgrounds at startups?

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How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC

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The team owns, operates and manages over 150 million square feet of real estate, making Camber Creek one of the biggest value-add venture partners for real estate tech startups. Key Questions To Answer When Pitching Real Estate Tech VCs Is there demand for the product? For some startups, proving demand can be more difficult.

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How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Startup

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The other day, I had a difficult conversation with a founder who clearly felt like VCs were the problem in her fundraising process. The fundraising process sucks for about a million reasons—not the least of which is that investors often lack clarity and transparency in their communication. Then, there are nuances.

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A Tale of Two Fundraising Stories

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Here are two contrasting startup stories I''ve seen firsthand. The fundraising will be for that content team, additional developers, and salespeople to leverage the unique brand they''ve built. The second startup came to me from a founder of a company that I only found out later wasn''t fulltime.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

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Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. We spend way too much time, particularly in and around the New York area, teaching fundraising versus company or product building.

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Should you be working on this startup?

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We’ve all heard the anecdotes—the famous founder who pitched 1000 investors before any of them said yes. They think that if they just had enough money to market something, it would take off, yet whenever they pitch the app in front of a crowd of 100 people, the conversion and virality rate isn’t proven out at all.

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Having Conviction

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Right or wrong, I''ve got an instinct that comes from being in and around startups and venture investing for over twelve years. I''ve seen a lot of fundraising drag on because investors aren''t getting back to startups in reasonable amounts of time or they get excited upfront, only to just kind of fizzle out over time.