Ry Walker (Founder/CTO of Astronomer.io, co-founder of Differential) has some strong opinions about raising money from angel investors.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne-UVOmob8k

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This is part 6 of a 7 part series documenting the 70 lessons I learned in running Cladwell.In 2018, we raised a bridge round, fired 3 team members, tested a bunch of business models, and honed in our core product.

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Also - if you're interested in getting coaching through the fundraising process as a founder (or in general) - feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]

This is part 5 of a 7 part series documenting the 70 lessons I learned in running Cladwell. In 2017, we tripled the team, we launched our new app, spent a lot of time on product and scaled marketing at the end of the year.

See the whole list here: https://medium.com/@blakesmith/70-lessons-learned-82751e223c8b

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Also - if you're interested in getting coaching through the fundraising process as a founder (or in general) - feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]

This is part 4 of a 7 part series documenting the 70 lessons I learned in running Cladwell. In 2016, we moved to SF, went through 500 Startups Accelerator, and the team started building our new app while I raised $1.5mil Seed Round

See the whole list here: https://medium.com/@blakesmith/70-lessons-learned-82751e223c8b

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This is part 3 of a 7 part series documenting the 70 lessons I learned in running Cladwell. In 2015, we created a Youtube channel for customer acquisition, ran out of money, pivoted business model/customer target, bet the business on a partnership w/ Macy’s and got it!

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This is part 2 of a 7 part series documenting the 70 lessons I learned in running Cladwell. In 2014, we expanded features on website, hired a team, added incremental revenue streams (that failed), and raised an additional Angel round.

See the whole list here: https://medium.com/@blakesmith/70-lessons-learned-82751e223c8b

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This is part 1 of a 7 part series documenting the 70 lessons I learned in running Cladwell. In 2013 we raised an angel round of funding and launched our first iteration of our product. This particular list was actually featured on Entrepreneur.com (linked) back in 2014 when I made it. 

See the whole list here: https://medium.com/@blakesmith/70-lessons-learned-82751e223c8b

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Venture Capitalist Brad Zapp (Connetic Ventures) talks with Blake about how he is thinking about investing during the COVID-19 crisis. He also shares his advice / thoughts for startups depending on their stage / situation.