Christian Osgood breaks down how to raise capital at any stage using three concrete tactics: go through your phone contacts alphabetically asking for investments and introductions, host a free event on Eventbrite to build a prospect list, and work local real estate meetups where investors actively look for deals. Most successful raises come from relationships, not mass outreach.
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Things that I would do— so now that you have the pitch deck, I'll give a full rundown of how I would attack a first, second, or third capital raise. I would go through my phone in alphabetical order and just think, who might either have the money for this or who might know someone who would? And I have raised a ton of money off of the people that someone who I know knows. If you don't ask that second question, people tend to not volunteer the information. You think they would, but they don't. The next thing that you do, you can Uh, put together an event. I would go through Eventbrite.com or similar event hosting software that's free, just because you want to capture the contact information of everyone who registered. It just makes it easier. The third way that I have found to be very effective— there are local real estate meetups in your area. Even if you were buying out of state, people in your state likely are also out-of-state investors as well. I would always connect with people at local real estate groups. People who are going to those are actively either looking to find partners on deals or looking to fund deals.