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Guides 5
Long, step-by-step playbooks for each phase of the raise.
Articles 6
Narrow topics, each settled in one sitting.
Accelerators 2
A live tracker of the major programs and their deadlines.
Books 2
The founder & fundraising reading shelf, annotated.
Playbooks 2
The best third-party guides — Sequoia, YC, a16z & more.
Glossary 3
The fundraising vocabulary, plainly defined.
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All guides →How to run a pre-seed raise
The full sequence — from writing the brief to confirming the wire — with the decisions that actually move a round.
How to build a pitch deck that gets meetings
The eleven slides investors expect, what belongs on each, and the one that decides the second call.
How to assemble a founder-ready data room
The 38-item seed packet, organised section by section — including the documents founders forget.
How to source warm introductions
Turn the people you already know into a pipeline of introductions to the funds you actually want.
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All articles →Pre-money vs post-money, settled in one page
The single distinction that quietly costs first-time founders two or three points of ownership.
The option-pool shuffle, and how to avoid it
Why the new option pool usually comes out of your slice — and the one sentence that changes that.
Reading a term sheet, line by line
Economics and control are the only two things a term sheet decides. Here is each line, decoded.
What investors actually do in diligence
Behind every data request is a question the partner is trying to answer. Know the question.