Wand: Fundraising time pressure favors VCs, so founders should run blitzes
Assaf Wand · 20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo · Jan 18, 2019 · at 16:13
Assaf Wand is the founder and CEO of Hippo. He discusses fundraising mechanics and tactics with 20VC host Harry Stebbings.
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“The time value is always in the benefits of the fund and not of the founder, and because of that, I think when you're doing a fundraising, it needs to be a condensed blitz and have 20, 30 meetings in that week, see what's going on, push it to the next level.”
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