Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Investor Meetings 01:31 - When you need to raise money 03:20 - Why they need to raise money? 06:21 - Types of investors 07:04 - Accelerators 08:59 - Friends and Family 11:02 - Angels 13:08 - Seed funds 14:20 - VC funds 16:22 - Crowdfunding websites 17:56 - Cold emails 22:50 - Meeting types 24:54 - Intro 26:34 - Follow-up 27:51 - Decision meeting 30:02 - Diligence 30:53 - Fancy dinner 32:12 - Things to remember 34:06 - Warning 38:04 - Q&A

Probably the clearest, simplest and most straightforward talk about "how to get fundings from investors" I've ever seen. Highly recommended.

For me this lecture worth more than a VC round.

The "Harassment " part of the lecture was fantastic, Thank you, Aaron. I personally believe self-esteem is way more important than money or any achievement.

Thank you Aaron Harris... this is a very practical, logical, strategic outlook to the subject. I think this is a masterly presentation.

Thanks, Aaron! Just about to meet angels and this talk helped me immensely!

Clear, simple, to the point, no fancy jargon, management lingo & cliches ! Amazing talk !

I really like hearing that there are real people in this business. Thanks for the wonderful insight.

This is a wonderfully concise and informative video. As someone who is about to enter this arena, it's comforting to have this available as a reference, and a YT channel that produces good work.

Best speaker in Y Combinator I have watched so far! I can literally see, how this guy has passed through tons of sh$t and came alongh through thousands of @$$holes to get this level of professionalism. I don't know this guy too much, but he is very good at what he is.

Great talk, Aaron! A very fresh perspective. Thanks so much for sharing what you know. You're amazing!!!!!

Excellent content. Help me prepare for my first meeting with investors.

"Harassment " part of the lecture was fantastic , Thank you Aaron .i don't why but i think self-esteem is way more important than money or any achievement .

Incredible insights that you can't find anywhere else. Thank you so much!

I really like this since it is something that I can expect. I really hate to deal with unexpected things. It's really stressful and time consuming. Very nice

This was so helpful man as someone that came from a different mentally and poor this has made all the difference when I hit that I know nothing and know no one who does. This video got me a meeting with an investor and direction.

I started a vending machine business last year as a side job while I am employed to a corporate world. Now I rely more on my earnings in my vending machine business. Such a good idea to start one.

Great Session Aaron Harris... I find this very Helpful... Very simple and straightforward.

very useful tips, very realistic. most academicians are not explaining things with logic.

This is a great video. It's all practical advice that founders should pay attention to.

This guy is really giving so relevant advice I have listened to a lot of advice videos and this guy's make a lot of sense I am going to look for more content from this guy.

Thank you for this straight forward masterpiece ❤🥺

This is very useful & insightful, thanks for sharing Aaron & YC team! highly appreciate this

Great talk. Thank You.

Aaron tells a great cautionary tale about interacting with investors.

"money to grow" simple and clear

Very useful! Thank you.

Lovely and informative presentation. Thank you. Helpful as i am struggling to get funding for feasibilty studies or market research before investors can put their money!

Thank you for that insight!

Great video Aaron thank you for for laying everything out so clearly. Really helped clarify how i should go about fundraising.

greeting from Taiwan! Such an essential lesson for start-up!!

This was great. I love the subtle humor to lighten the heavy hitter pointers! So awesome. Excited to get moving forward with my idea!

Fantastic lecture!

Excellent video! Thanks Aaron.

Great lecture!

Very interesting and very helpful ! Thanks a lot for sharing this video on youtube

Great advice for Business Entrepreneurs. Keep up the good work. Thank You, Natasha Samuel

Great insights here. Thank you for posting this!

Hey Aaron. Thanks for the lecture. Especially the part pertaining to writing cold to investors. Any tips on what makes for a compelling subject- line for a cold email.

This is brilliant, thank you so much for one of the most helpful lecture!

Thanks Aaron, really great advice given here

Thanks Aaron Harris. A lot of great advice here.

Such a great idea to know exactly what research business owners should do prior to raising funds and what the funds should best serve the start-up and how much. A lot of people just say "I need cash"... For what? Will it help you grow? Great job

Very good advice. Thank you for sharing this information.

Brilliant talk. Thank you.

Well Framed. Thank you.

One great point, the inheritance is coming your way anyway, which makes me think it's actually great to create wealth myself, so that I can leave the country richer! Great point man!

Great talk! Thank you very much.

This was so great!! we need more!

This is awesome. Thank you Aaron

Great video with so many great takeaways!

Very nicely explained

I had a gut feeling accelerators were dumb but it was great to hear it!

Thank you for this!!

WOW....THANKS MAN... U DID GREAT...I LEARNT SO MUCH....

Nice talk, includes many tips useful to me.

YC content is so good.

This is gold thank you

An interesting observation from my side: Investors appreciate a good conversation, they first and foremost want to get to know the team. So don't spend 50 percent of the call rephrasing your pitch deck which is what a ton of startups do. Another big point is honesty: Most investors I've worked with would rather prefer it if you can clearly identify the pain points of your product and how you want to overcome them with his money (ie cost of user acquisition, influencer campaigns, A/B testing, UX testing), instead of being like "We are the best company in the world, we just need cash to show it" :)

Very apt and to the point!

Thanks for enlighting

This is worth your time.

Very informative and at the same time; really entertaining :)

this is so cool..and very clear messages here. thanks

Awesome, thanks for the video.

This was incredible. Thank you

"If you can't sit through an hour of dinner with someone, you should think very carefully about whether or not you want to take their money." - Aaron Harris

Great video. Super helpful

Extremely helpful, thanks!

Thank You

Thank you Aaron . I realize this video was posted 3 years ago, nonetheless, the content is still fresh, informative, relevant and I appreciate your straightforwardness. I had one question if you happen to review comments from old videos, as a entrepreneur with a specific product idea that hasn't yet reached a final prototype, do I need to be concerned about protecting valuable trade secrets, or methodologies. Especially, given the fact that I am talking with someone who has a lot of conversations with many other businesses any of which could see this as valuable information that they could fold into their plans. How often are investors denied specific details of intellectual property, or asked to sign an NDA? Any feedback would be appreciated, I'm all ears.

Wow! Thanks 😊

quite insightful

Dude, your the realest🙏

Thumbs up Aaron. 👏👏👏 YC

That was very helpful!

These are good advices.

Good show Chap...I got some ideas of my own

Excellent

This is Gold

Great presentation, I 💯 approve the part about some accelerators who have unfortunately no knowledge about startups. Make your research before signing or engaging with accelerator ;)

Thanks 👍

Great Talk!

Very informative

Solid advice. Aaron has an uncanny resemblance to B. J. Novak, Ryan Howard from The Office!

Thanks ❤️

Thanks!

Thanks

Awesome vid!

Pure gold..... Applying all the advices for our seed round... Let's see ho it works out.... Back in 6 months with the results......keep you posted....

Underrated content!

How to evaluate what’s the total value of my startup and how to allocate the percentage to the crowd finders ?

some points: - show progress and acknowledge (idea, prototype, users, metrics). - don't hire, be strategic. - don't do Ads, be organic. - be careful about accelerators. look at their track record. - research about your investor, show acknowledge. - be direct, less waster of time (key points is awesome). - meetings != progress.

how much is a common share for angel? And how to reply them when they ask something like "why my share is not higher than (amount)%?"

Hi. Thank you for your advice. Very interesting video. I have a couple of questions. For example, a person has a plan, but this plan involves buying an existing company and working further, develop business. A person needs investments to buy this business. Do investor invest in the purchase of an existing business? Thanks.

in you re for example a german entrepreneur, is it possible to get american seed money? Or are these investors more likely to invest in US startups?

Does anyone know what metrics he was he was talking about?

Absolutely motivating! Thankyou so much. If anyone is interested in investing in homesteads and vertiports in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, then let me know :)

great

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