Raising Capital Episodes

July 19, 2023

Edu: Knowledge vs Wisdom - When Our Advice Is WRONG!

Rules are meant to be broken! You wouldn’t be building startups if you were a complete rule follower. In this episode, Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein discuss all the times when you should IGNORE their advice! Together they co...

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July 5, 2023

Edu: VC Pitch Recording - How Masters Handle Dumb Money

Introducing Mid Capital! This week on The Startup Podcast Chris and Yaniv wanted to switch it up and show how to navigate the fundraising VC discussions via roleplay. That’s right! We think Yaniv has found his calling as an a...

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May 11, 2023

Reacts: The VC Slaughterhouse -- Don't Let Investors Kill Your Dreams

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episode. Yaniv and Chris are fired up about bad VC investors, and they can't hold it in any longer! Good Venture Capitalists help founders make the impossible, possible. They are the fuel that allows rocketships to...

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March 30, 2023

Edu: Term Sheet Pitfalls – Don’t Turn Your Cap Table Into a Crap Table

Darker times in venture have seen the return of some old investment terms that haven’t had much of an airing lately: warrants, participating liquidation preferences, tranches, and more. These aren’t always bad, but if you’re ...

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March 9, 2023

Edu: Raising Capital at Seed – Don’t Listen to the Dumb Money

The days of easy startup money are over (for now, at least). With the change in capital raising climate has come a tsunami of stupid advice—especially for the many startups facing the challenge of raising at the Seed stage. T...

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Nov. 21, 2022

Reacts: Downturn Fundraising - How to Raise Money in the Current Clim…

It’s no secret that the investment environment has changed quite drastically in the last six months, and for many founders out there it has become much more difficult to raise the needed funds. We have recently had the privil...

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Nov. 11, 2022

Q&A: Prioritising Features, How to Cold Email Investors, and More

Time for another Listener Q&A episode! Chris and Yaniv give clear, actionable answers on the following questions: How to prioritise which features to build? How to think about PR for your startup? When is the right time to st...

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