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Mike’s Note #8 — Our Open Sourced Investor Database
We are sharing before we are ready on this one. So much has changed over the past week we wanted to audible to make sure we are helping startups as…
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Our Startup Fundraising Guide
Our ultimate guide to help founders and startups raise venture capital. We will cover the history of venture capital, the investor thought process, finding and pitching investors, sharing data and documents, closing your new investors, and building strong relationships to…
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