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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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the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” I mean, in a real fund-raising process?

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How ContractSafe Wants To Help You Get Your Legal Docs In Order, With Ken Button

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At least once a week, and email would go around to the whole team, on who has the latest version of XYZ contract, or do we have an NDA with so and so. How are you funding this so far? ContractSafe is a solution for companies that can benefit from having documents organized, and don't want to spend lots of time and money getting there.

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. Just look at what happened with Yuri & Ron funding the YC deals. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do.

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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

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And I get flooded with legal docs, end-of-quarter financial administration, recruiting, whatever. Do you find yourself too much in email mode? I regularly shut down my email so that I don’t get pop-up alerts when I’m working. Board Meetings. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode.

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How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence?

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I often caution entrepreneurs about seeing too many VCs when you’re beginning your fund raising process both because information tends to leak and because if you see too many people who talk with each other you’ll soon have whispers amongst all of the VCs who “passed on you” and your deal will seem over-shopped and lacking in momentum.

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Secure Enterprise Sharing Provider CapLinked Announces $3.5M Round

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CapLinked , a secure enterprise sharing and storage provider, today has announced a new round of funding totaling $3.5 There have been plenty of sure ways in the past, email attachments, dropbox, etc. We have clients that will upload 10K docs at a time. You’ll have to share sensitive data. It keeps companies safe while doing.”.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

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Morgan Stanley then funded one of our competitors. Had I delayed my fund raising in 99/00 by even 3-4 weeks I’m convinced I would not have raised any money at all. I’ve offered to fund an early stage company where I promised cash in bank in less than 30 days. I’d send them their email and point out the docs were late.