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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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If you’ve got the skills to be a strong entrepreneur then it shouldn’t be too difficult to find people who know a partner at a VC firm and if you can build relationship with them you can get introduced. Most entrepreneurs (and VCs raising from LPs) think this means progress. Entrepreneur : “Sure. Some people find this elitist?—?I

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

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Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. 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. Recruiters.