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Klaff: Only Having Two Interested Investors Leads to Retrading

Oren Klaff · 1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches · Nov 4, 2018 · at 8:28

Oren Klaff discusses the danger of having too narrow an investor pipeline when raising capital for small companies.

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“Because of the peculiarity of a small deal and the nuances and the needs and demands of investors in that small deal market, the speed at which they work and the requirements they have, one or two potentials in my view is not enough to close with. Or it's not enough to close well with, and you get retraded at the end of the deal.”

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