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Amber Atherton

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2019 by Amber Atherton · across every show →

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Dec 18, 2019
Insight
Atherton: Startups should negotiate legal fee caps during fundraising
“Negotiate a cap with your law firm to do the regals because it will go over and it will end up being 30 days or maybe even 60 days.”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 20:26 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Atherton: VC-funded female-founded startups grew from 410 in 2009 to 2,700
“There's a great, like, all-raised statistic that, 2009, 410 companies who had female founders got VC funding, whereas last 2019, 2700 companies got VC funding.”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 37:46 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019
Insight
Atherton: Founders should never fake competing term sheets to create urgency
“You can be tempted to say, oh, well, we have this other time sheet. We have this other offer, blah, blah, blah. Just don't ever do that because it's so small as a community and just be honest.”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 17:08 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019 neutral
Opinion
Atherton: Founders cannot blame missing term sheets on gender or race
“Like, if you have a great product and great traction, then you have a hot deal, and like, any other kind of justification as to why you're not getting term sheet is, you can't really say that. Like, you either have product market fit and a hot deal, and that's…”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 34:27 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019
Assertion Supported
Atherton: Zyper raised $1.2M in London before applying to Y Combinator
“Started the company in 2017, and I raised raised 1.2 seed in London from a VC in London, and a lot of angels involved in that, great angels involved in that round two and then and then I applied to YC, and got in then.”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 1:18 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Atherton: Zyper wrote its own investment memos to send to VCs
“What we did was kind of do the VC's jobs for them and Write, you know, a memo as to why you should invest in us. And that sort of went out, you know, with the deck after the first meeting.”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 6:21 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
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