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Demo day is the fundraising starting gun, not the finish line

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Founders treat demo day as the endpoint and spend the batch preparing for those ten minutes in front of LPs, then reach demo day and discover they've raised almost nothing—because LPs fund companies they've already been talking to for months, not companies they meet on stage for the first time. The investors in the room are looking to confirm decisions already half-made.

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It made 35 things out of that question. This is number 5.

← before thispageListing Who Else Tried ThisMap the graveyard before you claim the empty lot.componentDemo day is the fundraising starting gun, not the finish lineyou are hereafter this →pagePricing a Market That Barely ExistsShow the multiplication before the investor does it for you.

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