A founder breaks down fundraising into five stages: preparing your pitch, identifying investors, landing an early backer, opening conversations with many investors at once, and closing the deal. Each phase builds momentum toward the next.
If you're in tilling, it's about preparing, getting your pitch solid, getting to certainty, your internal preparation. If you're in planting, it's about identifying your ideal investor, making lists, and lining up intros. If you're in watering, it's about finding your first mover and building excitement among all the investors that you're talking to. If you're in harvesting, it's about opening the raise and really getting everyone excited and, and and in a massive place of abundance in terms of investors and conversations so you can close it. And if you're in closing, the name of the game is getting the thing closed and getting the cash in the bank. So that is the get funded process. I hope that's useful for you guys.
