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This Week in Startups

Twitter bans sharing “private media” + Startup Checklist: How to raise capital | E1336

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason covers Twitter's confusing major new privacy policy revision (1:54), reacts to a 1995 clip of Bill Gates talking about the internet on Letterman (12:36). Then, in episode 9 of the Startup Checklist, Jason explains how to raise capital from venture investors (16:47). This includes: finding investors and evaluating if they are the right fit (29:35), nailing cold emails (35:33), pitching your startup, sending investor (47:42) updates and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to this week in startups.

0:01.6

It's episode nine of our startup checklist.

0:04.4

And this is the one you've been waiting for.

0:06.1

You've got your startup really tight.

0:08.2

You've figured out your product, you know your market,

0:10.6

you got your team, you got your culture,

0:12.1

everything's just dialed in and you want to raise money.

0:14.3

So today we're going to talk about how to raise capital,

0:17.8

finding investors, figuring out if they're the right fit

0:20.6

for you, how to nail that cold intro

0:23.0

and how to pitch your startup perfectly

0:25.2

so that you don't frustrate investors

0:26.6

and they understand what you do,

0:29.0

why it's important, why they should invest

0:31.1

and you get that second or third meeting.

0:33.6

We also talk about sending investor updates,

0:35.6

which makes raising more money, easier in the future.

0:38.6

But first, Twitter just announced a new privacy policy revision.

0:42.8

It's super confusing, I'm going to break it down for you.

0:45.2

And then we're bringing back our tweet of the day.

0:48.8

And this is an archive video of David Letterman

0:52.5

interviewing Bill Gates in 1995 about this new thing

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