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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.”

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Indianapolis is the “It Place” to Start a Startup?

Tech Zulu Event

CircleUp is an online social marketplace that supports direct equity investments from individual investors to small private consumer and retail companies. With no safety net in play, just peace in his heart, he stayed and let everyone he knew in Indy know that he believed in the city, the people, and growing tech scene.

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