#140 - Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

Y Combinator Startup Podcast - Een podcast door Y Combinator

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Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.

He’s on Twitter @harris.

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.

Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

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Topics

00:00 - Intro

00:42 - Seed fundraising process

3:32 - Emailing investors

9:32 - Parallelized fundraising process

12:17 - Meeting with investors

14:17 - Overcapitalization

17:07 - Communicating your plan to investors

19:02 - Evaluating investors

22:57 - Fundraising process for a Series A company

27:02 - Meeting Series A investors

28:57 - Post-Demo Day psychology

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