2. There is no shortage of
great startup advice
Joel Spolsky Mark Suster Larry Page
Paul Graham Michael Arrington
Fred Wilson Dave McClure
Brad Feld Seth Godin
Eric Ries
Steve Blank Jason Fried Bill Gates
Guy Kawasaki Reid Hoffman
Dharmesh Shah
Jeff Bezos Ben Horowitz
Drew Houston
Richard Branson
Mark Cuban
David Cohen
10. 3!
“I need money to build a team,
but I need a team to raise money”
“No one will help me”
“He promised to write me a check
then disappeared”
“VCs are mean”
“I am hungry”
“This is really hard”
deal
with it
14. 5!
Raising Money is
difficult slow stressful
frustrating time-consuming
exhausting
Finding the right investor is hard
Getting that investor to listen to you is really hard
Getting a check from that investor is insanely!hard