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In this episode the co-founder and CEO of Orb Intelligence, Maria Grineva shares her story of starting a first company back in Russia that generated no revenue but still got acquired by one of the largest internet companies in Russia and then we talk about Orb Intelligence - how first sales are made while you are bootstrapping, should you talk to VCs if you don't plan to raise money from then and tons of insights into the process of fundraising.

One Million By One Million blog: https://www.sramanamitra.com/?s=bootstrapping+to+exit

Orb Intelligence/DNB: https://www.dnb.com/solutions/marketing-sales.html

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In this episode by Fundraising Radio, our guest speaker is Ahmad Abdulkader, the CTO and co-founder of Voicea that raised about $20 million and was recently acquired by Cisco. Ahmad tells about the role of technical people in the fundraising process, explains how to attract talent early on and how even a bad pitch can lead to an acquisition.

Articles by Ahmad: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HZxrGFIAAAAJ&hl=en

Article on how Voicea raised $14.5 mil: https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/07/voicera-raises-14-5-million-for-ai-that-draws-insights-from-meeting-notes/

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In this episode of Fundraising Radio our speaker, Alan Fisher - member and angel investor at Sand Hill Angels tells about the major differences between angel groups, explains how Sand Hill Angels work and who should consider applying. He also covers some resources available for founders that are provided by Sand Hill Angels. Insights into the angel groups in this episode by Alan Fisher.

Sand Hill Angels: https://www.sandhillangels.com/

Apply for practice pitch with SHA here: https://www.sandhillangels.com/raw-application

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In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Craig Kaplan, Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners explains the importance of initial sales, explains how to speed up the process and how to make sure you don't get stuck in awfully long sales cycles which bankrupted many startups. And of course, we talked about the fundraising process - specifically for early stage startups.

NextGen Venture Partners: https://nextgenvp.com/

What are the top 5 documents you need to show to the investors before they will invest? 

1. Certificate of incorporation.

2. Bylaws.

3. Confidentiality and Intellectual Property (IP) assignment.

4. Restricted stock purchase agreement.

5. Corporate resolution.

All that explained to you on Fundraising Radio by Yev Muchink - founder of Launch Legal LLC and your host - Konstantin Dubovitskiy. Educational episode of Fundraising Radio #5

Launch Legal: https://www.techlawstartup.com/

How to assign stock to your employees? How to distribute it among the co-founders? How to store stocks and keep track of the cap table. We even touched onto paying employees through debt and employees purchasing stocks through forgiving debt. Epic educational episode on the legal side of the fundraising with Yev Muchnik, founder of Launch Legal. Educational episode of Fundraising Radio #4

Carta - equity management solution: https://carta.com/

EQUA start - dynamic agreements platform: https://www.equastart.io/

Launch Legal: https://www.techlawstartup.com/

Early stage fundraising can become a legal mess - mixing friends and business is always dangerous and might lead to serious legal issues. To help you guide through this process Yev Muchnik in this episode of Fundraising Radio explains what are some of the major regulations that you need to follow while raising your first money.

Launch Legal: https://www.techlawstartup.com/

 In this episode Raphael Danilo - co-founder of Yobs Technologies and also an angel investor with 12 portfolio companies tells about fundraising for complicated technical solutions and what should early stage founders do if they think of building it. 

Yobs Technologies: https://www.yobstech.com/

In this episode Chris Lu, angel investor and investor at Employee Stock Option Fund gives a lot of recommendations for early stage founders - how can they reach out to angel investors if they don't have a good network, what books on fundraising should they read prior to raising funding and what he as an angel investor likes to see in the startup. 

Book recommendation by Chris: building a business culture - https://www.amazon.com/What-You-Do-Who-Are-ebook/dp/B07NVN4QCM

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In this episode of Fundraising Radio Gabriele Sorrento, the Co-Founder and CEO of Mindesk that was recently acquired by Vection Technologies tells how they fundraised, how and where to find investors and why is stealth mode a very bad choice for a startup.

Vection technologies: https://www.vection.com.au/

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