Today let’s talk about handling investor objections. An “Objection” is a concept from sales, and since fundraising is sales, objections are very relevant to raising capital from investors. In fact, I believe it’s crucial for every founder to...
The world we live in has problems and needs solutions, and I believe a lot of those solutions will come from entrepreneurs like you. But in order for those solutions to actually get into the hands of the people who need them, funding is often critical. And the sad...
Hi, I’m Mike, Program Director at Fulcrum Venture Accelerator, and I get it, you are tired. Tired of working from home, tired of yet another zoom call, tired of spending hours and hours behind your laptop without any real social interaction. But guess what, it’s...
Fulcrum Alum Paul Gambill from Nori sent us a short video on how he used the Fulcrum process to close more than $5M in seed funding over the last 18 months. Often entrepreneurs want to do things their own way, but when it comes to raising early seed funding this is...
At some point as I was raising seed capital for Kindara, I realized I had within me a super-power: the ability to tell stories. The more I raised and the more investors I closed, the more convinced I became that storytelling was a fundraising secret weapon. I...
Hey everyone, our founder Will hosted a webinar last Tuesday for the Founder Institute called “How to Fundraise Successfully During a Pandemic” We had over 350 people attend and it was a great session with about 40 minutes of founder Q&A about...
