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mrShiningWizardon Ask HN: How Would You Fund-Raise for your Startup without vast personal network?

Great advice, thank you

mrShiningWizardon CEO's Job Is a Full-Time Fundraiser – And How We Could Change That

Hey folks, author here.

I just wanted to know what you think, and whether you agree founders shouldn't spend most of their time fund-raising, but rather spend time developing a product and talking to customers. What have your experience been like? How do you mitigate spreading yourself too thin? Let me know :)

mrShiningWizardon Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my biz idea to help startups find smart $$$

Thank you a lot!

It's not intended to be a marketplace.. Instead we would aggregate the information about each investor and then share it with the community of startups who would be our customers

mrShiningWizardon How do you organize what you've learned so far?

I try to put as much on paper or a digital equivalent of it as possible. My co-founder and I have habit of writing everything we hear, read about, or learn down so we can come back to it later. If it's for personal use - keep a word doc and just write down thoughts and discoveries, perhaps with links or references for you to re-read and re-visit later. For our business at http://Airdyme.io we keep a collection of spreadsheets pertaining to customer research, product development, fundraising and other activities. The more you can document the better. I believe even Airbnb's co-founder have mentioned a habit of writing down all kinds of crazy ideas on a simple notepad. You can watch that video here: https://vimeo.com/23275754