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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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That said, there are times where you need to cast a wider net. But as it goes to the legal docs naturally 20 issues arise the require negotiations. You can certainly get coaching from your VC on how to play the negotiations since they do it more often than you do. You want the deal to close in 4 weeks.