Alisa Cohn - Raising Money as a First Time Founder

As a first-time founder, you're doing so many things for the first time, including raising money. So here are 3 ideas for you to raise money as a first-time founder. Number 1, look and see which investors have invested in companies like yours, in ideas like yours, in spaces like yours. Make a list of them. Then see how you can get introduced to them. There are probably people in your network who know them. Maybe you can figure out who their portfolio companies are and get introduced to them. So one way or the other, find people to introduce you to those investors. And then start reaching out to those founders or other people. People always wanna help entrepreneurs like you, so you can ask them for their advice. You can ask them what made a successful pitch. You can ask them how they thought about raising money themselves, and I bet they're gonna offer to introduce you to these investors. So that's the way to get your warm intro to investors. Then, of course, you have to create the story that's going to entice the investor to get interested in you enough to write a check.