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Aspen Neuroscience Gets $70M

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San Diego-based Aspen Neuroscience , a biotechnology company developing treatments for Parkinson disease, said it has raised $70M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by OrbiMed, and also included ARCH Venture Partners, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Domain Associates, Section 32, and Sam Altman.

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How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

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The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. One of the most important aims of a fund-raising process is to keep similar firms at the same stage of your process. Why 8–10 and not just 3–4?

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Scanwell Health launches smartphone tests for UTIs in partnership with Lemonaid Health

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The company has a test for chronic kidney disease in the works through a collaboration with Kaiser Permanent and the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study to improve screening for and monitoring of chronic kidney disease at home. “We believe in the power of telehealth and what it can do,” says Chen.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

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The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. First, no matter what anybody tells you (people don’t want to believe that we’re influenced by the crowd), social proof is hugely important in fund raising. You should, too.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. Let's talk about the recent funding round?

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time. What we've been able to do, is non-intrusively serve ads on the right side of the screen, which rotate every 60 seconds.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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We have a business plan and private placement on that site, and recently started searching for investors to raise the funds we needed to go into production, and start marketing and sales. So, we started developing the technology, and once that we put that together, we started looking for funding. There also automatic converters.

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