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The 505 Investors That Can Change Your Raise (opens the original)
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Two founders raise the same round.Same sector. Same traction. Broadly the same deck.One closes in eleven weeks. The other spends seven months “in conversations” and quietly gives up in the spring.Here’s the part that surprises people. They both emailed roughly the same number of investors.DocSend, working with Harvard Business School, has tracked this across hundreds of seed raises. Founders who closed their round contacted 77 investors on average and held 40 investor meetings. Founders who didn
The Claude Operating System for Fundraising (opens the original)
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Most founders use Claude the same way.They open a new chat.They paste in the deck. Then the metrics. Then three paragraphs explaining what the company does, for roughly the fortieth time.They get a good answer, copy it into Notion, and close the tab.Tomorrow, Claude has forgotten all of it.<
Build an Investor List That Actually Gets Replies 💌, An AI VC Committee🔍, Muse Hits No. 1 on the App Store🏆 (opens the original)
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If you’re building, investing, or just trying to stay ahead of the curve, you’re in the right place. Every week, we break down the latest insights, funding news, and founder-friendly gems. Just what matters. Plus, we track the freshest VC funds deploying capital so you know where the money’s moving.Let’s get into it.In-Depth Insights 🔍NVIDIA Halved AI Agent Costs With a Better Harness<a href="https://www.thevccorner.com/p/nvidia-sol-pi-agent-harn
How to Turn Content Into Paying Customers: The 3-Pillar Playbook (opens the original)
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👋 Hey, Chris here! Welcome to The Founders Corner. If you’ve been reading along, you’ll know I have very little patience for theory that doesn’t survive contact with a real buyer.This series is a preview of a new book I’ve written with my partners Richard Blundell and Paul Watson — The Selling Software Algorithm: The Go-to-Market Navigation System for B2B Software Leaders.It isn’t a strategy deck dressed up as a book. Between the three of us we’ve spent close to seven decades inside B2
The 169 VCs Leading Rounds Right Now (opens the original)
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You build the list the way everyone does.Export a database. Filter by stage. Filter by sector. Sort by the names you recognise.Four hundred rows. You start sending emails.Six weeks later: “a bit early for us.” “Not quite our stage.” Mostly silence.There is nothing wrong with your deck. You are emailing firms that have not led a round like yours in two years.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Oqjs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
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