This document appears to be a series of prompts or discussion topics related to venture capital fundraising and partnerships. Some of the topics addressed in the 3 or fewer sentence summaries are: - The importance of a warm introduction when starting fundraising efforts - Questions around giving up or maintaining control over a company's board of directors - Debate around the effectiveness and structure of SAFE notes and whether splitting funding rounds into multiple closings is preferable - Acceptability of raising funds from multiple investors in a single round in 2019 - Potential signaling effects and follow-on investment from large funds making small initial investments - Factors to consider when evaluating potential new partners versus proven existing partners - Tradeoffs of support from mega funds

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2. “You Need a
Warm Intro”
Where to start?
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3. “Don’t Give Up
Control” (e.g. board etc)
Will anyone care enough?
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4. “SAFEs etc Are
Much Better”
Does it even matter?
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5. “Split Up The
Round”
How fine?
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6. “3+ Seeds are
OK in 2019”
How Much is Too Much?
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7. Big Fund, Small
Check. Ok?
Does “Signalling” Matter?
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8. “I’ve Never
Heard From You
Since I Invested”
Who writes a 2nd check?
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9. “My Friend
Raised At …”
What Stories Matter?
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10. Good Brand.
So-So Partner.
Best Trade Off?
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11. New Partner.
Or Proven
Partner?
Attention vs. “Juice”
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12. Who Really
Helps The
Most? At All?
Hiring, Series B, Customers?
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13. “The Term
Sheet Expires
At …”
Who is Selling to Whom?
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14. “We Can
Support You
All The Way to
IPO”
Mega Funds. Pros and Cons.
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15. “The Series A
Guys Got a
Great Deal”
What are your Series B KPIs?
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16. “We Need
More Time”
How Long to Build A+B+C
Relationships?
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17. “We Need a
Balanced
Board. Let’s
Add ...”
Who controls what. And why.
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