The New Rules of Crypto Fundraising | Roundup
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And so I think right now the advice I give all founders, especially at pre seed is just don't even actually worry too much about the vision, worry about a market being big enough in the first place where if it works out, it's a massive outcome. That's it. Then you can sell the vision.
Hey, everyone. Quick disclaimer before we get into today's episode. Nothing said on Bell Curve is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and the views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Our guests and I may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed. GM, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Bell Curve. You got me, Zave Miles. How's everyone doing?
Doing great. Doing great. In New York. I think we got three different time zones working again. So always good. What's New York, Miles?
Is this a BD trip?
Our office. Yeah. Working with Oleg, our founder, talking to some design customers, doing sales calls, all the good things.
Hell yeah. Yeah. New York is really the moment. I mean, were talking with Zave and I were in a con, which is definitely an amazing place to, but there's a lot of, momentum in New York for sure.
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaking of momentum, this is gonna be an interesting episode. We have, I think three pretty unique perspectives represented on this call for what we're going to talk about, which is go to market and how to raise as a either first time or early stage founder. So hopefully this is going to serve as a little bit of a, of like a general how to, and my hope is that we can actually get into some of the tactical questions that kind of end up being glossed over in higher level strategy type podcasts around what are investors looking for, that type of thing. You know, we have obviously an investor rep
Yeah, absolutely. I think in general, the inspiration for this podcast was really around, I guess, my time right now in the private markets in the venture space, speaking with many founders And yeah, very clear right now that the bar is really high for founders to raise even seed capital. We've spoken about it a bit on the podcast before as to why that is. Of course, venture funds aren't raising as much as they did in the past and the ones that are raising are usually a bit larger. And so that tend to invest at later stages. However, as you guys both know, as we'll crack into in a little bit,
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