Minshew Secured A VC Term Sheet For The Muse Via Cold Email
Kathryn Minshew · 20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse · Sep 2, 2016 · at 19:14
Kathryn Minshew, Founder and CEO of job platform The Muse, discusses how she managed investor outreach during fundraising rounds.
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“One of the investors that gave us a term sheet is someone that I sent a cold email to about a month before we started raising because I had seen something that they'd written on the internet and thought it was brilliant and so wrote back an answer and we ended up developing a relationship.”
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