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FOMO: The only thing that matters in closing a seed round

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Chris Schultz ✌️
Feb 04, 2014
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Steve Schlafman shared a great deck yesterday — a primer on Raising Seed Capital. Slide 53 contains a gem for founders.

Your objective: FOMO (fear of missing out)

Your goal throughout the process should be to create excitement, demand and scarcity for your round. Investors move in packs.

I’ve been on both sides of many seed financing processes, and the abi…

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