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3 Things Your Startup Must Do Before Raising From Investors

30 min
Apr 23, 2025 12:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

How to research and segment the investor landscape

Use market research to identify and group potential investors so you don’t waste time on the wrong ones

How to target the right investors and position well

Apply proven targeting and positioning principles to stand out and get noticed by the right investors

How to create and test a send-out deck that gets meetings

Use a template to build a short, focused send-out deck, then test it with 'AI digital twins' of your target investors

Why this topic matters

Raising money is one of the first marketing challenges founders face. In this class, you'll learn how to approach your raise like a marketer. Lee will do a short lecture before Dino interviews Kristian Fryer-Kelsey, CEO of Plates, who used our send-out deck template to raise money for his AI startup.

You'll learn from

Lee Henshaw

Lee Henshaw

Currently fundraising for Into-it, his new marketing startup

Dino Myers-Lamptey

Dino Myers-Lamptey

Award-winning founder of the marketing consultancy The Barbershop

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