3 Comments
Mar 23, 2023·edited Mar 23, 2023Liked by Waseem Daher

"(...) even if it demonstrates that you have good taste in Substacks." 😂

Expand full comment

This is excellent advice, and I wish I'd learned this much earlier when I was raising our first round!

Expand full comment

Here in Europe, I've created a new way for ambitious founders to connect with high-level VCs and influential people VC.

What exactly do we do? We're building a structured and long-term lobbying campaign to influence VCs before the roadshow. We run this campaign over a period of 12 to 24 months. We organize an average of 40 meetings with key people. It takes the founders only 6 hours per month. We're responsible for making these appointments, monitoring each meeting, and reviewing the story we share with each individual.

We have developed a new practice to live up to the motto "always be raising".

Expand full comment