{"id":202,"date":"2018-05-31T22:09:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-fundraising-as-a\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T22:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:09:24","slug":"what-i-wish-i-knew-about-fundraising-as-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-fundraising-as-a\/","title":{"rendered":"What I wish I knew about fundraising as a first-time founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/medium.com\/@preethikasireddy\/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-fundraising-as-a-first-time-founder-243644968567'>What I wish I knew about fundraising as a first-time founder<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>One suggestion I\u2019d make it to speak to angel investors first. It\u2019s best to talk to the angel community first because these are the people who usually are less formal and are willing to give you more direct feedback (if you ask for it genuinely.) Also, a rejection from an angel is generally:<br \/>\nless embarrassing<br \/>\nmore friendly and light-hearted<br \/>\nless loud, in terms of signaling<br \/>\nOn the other hand, a rejection from a VC firm feels much more \u201creal\u201d and unfortunately can reverberate through the wider VC community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I wish I knew about fundraising as a first-time founder One suggestion I\u2019d make it to speak to angel investors first. It\u2019s best to talk to the angel community first because these are the people who usually are less formal and are willing to give you more direct feedback (if you ask for it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}