134. The Mental Game of Fundraising While Running The Business feat. Neha Govindraj, CEO @ Bonside
VC Minute08/08/23 • 1 min
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08/08/23 • 1 min
VC Minute - 134. The Mental Game of Fundraising While Running The Business feat. Neha Govindraj, CEO @ Bonside
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I think when I was raising the pre-seed I was like, why do people not like fundraising? Like fundraising's incredible. It was like, oh, you don't believe it. Okay. Yeah. Let me sit on that. Let me think about it for a little bit. I don't have a team to respond to. I don't have customers to respond to. Let me think about how I can iterate on it. And so I think just like mindset was so different between pre-seed and seed. Raising the seed was
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