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Dan Held, Growth Lead at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange with two companies sold explains how to acquire your first customers and why paying for your first customers might be a bad idea. We discuss few particular ways of being "cheap and scrappy" in user acquisition and talk about low-budget startups in this episode.

Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheld/

Kraken Digital Asset Exchang: https://www.kraken.com/

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Nitin Pachisia, Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures explains how does immigrant-focused investing work, how does Unshackled Ventures source its deals and how should immigrant (and local) founders start building their network during COVID-19. We also discuss the best ways to identify if the investor is a good fit for your specific company.

Nitin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/npachisia/

Unshackled Ventures: https://www.unshackledvc.com/

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In this episode of Fundraising Radio Michael Dunn, the CTO at Ultra explains how he sees the future of team building, networking and fundraising and he also talks about the current situation and how early stage startups can use it to their advantage. We also touch onto what value Techstars and similar incubators/accelerators provide. 

Michael Dunn's linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glemak/

Office hours with Make it Studio: https://make-studios.typeform.com/to/bUvZoSwl - it's time to get some extra questions answered.

How to legally start a startup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf4qtY6vvBs

Arthur Nobel - B2B SaaS Investor, Associate at Knight Venture Capital explains how to acquire your first customers in B2B field and how to present those customers to investors. We discuss B2B fundraising and international sales for B2B SaaS startups.

Arthur's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthurnobel/

Knight Venture Capital: https://www.knight.vc/

YC library: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/

Office hours with Make it Studio: https://make-studios.typeform.com/to/bUvZoSwl (it's extremely helpful, trust me).

Kofi Ampadu, Founder and General Partner at SKU'D ventures explains how should founders in consumer space fundraise and specifically those who are in CPG (consumer packaged goods) fundraise.

Kofi Ampadu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kofiampadu/

SKU'D ventures investing in consumer brand startups: https://www.skudventures.com/

Jamal Ashraf, acquired in a year after reaching over 40 million downloads: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Jamal-Ashraf/

Jamal Ashraf, the founder of Esgut, talks about how he turned down funding from Naval Ravikant and how the company was acquired by Shervin Pishevar's Social Gaming Network (now Jam City) after a 2 hour conversation at a conference. We also discuss growing to 1 million users just 4 weeks after starting the company, how products can go viral, and what to focus on other than the number of downloads.

Bulk Probiotics: https://bulkprobiotics.com/

Office hours with Make it Studio: https://make-studios.typeform.com/to/bUvZoSwl (it's extremely helpful, trust me).

Jeffrey Silverman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Laconia explains the meaning of having a capital strategy and explains how to develop one. We also talk about how much money should founders raise, how long should that money last and how to calculate the ideal amount of funding.

Laconia's website: https://www.laconiacapitalgroup.com/

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Christopher Hussain, the Co-Founder and CEO at RealKey in this episode talks about what he learned from his past fundraising experiences and how it affected his approach of raising money for his current company - RealKey. We also discussed what should early stage founders do to raise money now and who should consider accelerators (hint: pretty much anyone early stage).

Christopher's email: [email protected]

RealKey: https://www.realkey.com/

Office hours with Make it Studio: https://make-studios.typeform.com/to/bUvZoSwl (it's extremely helpful, trust me).

Mayur Motgi, the Co-Founder and CEO at Propl, acquired by Jobox.ai explains how he managed to bring his company to an acquisition with no funding raised and he also talked about who should consider fundraising versus bootstrapping.

Mayur Motgi's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/motgi/

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Sungjoon Cho, General Partner at D20 Capital explains who should try to expand globally and how to prepare for an abroad expansion. We specifically focused on Asian markets expansion and talked how founders can benefit from working with cross-border investors.

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