I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need venture capital to start a startup.
Mat Sherman
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Mat Sherman
@Mat_Sherman
Founder/GP of MatCap
- The no bullshit guide to raising angel funding/venture capital as an outsider.
- Anyone want access to Crunchbase for pre-seed startups?
- Looking to give 5 people $500/mo to start their own podcast on any topic they want. Anyone want it?
- Hey @garyvee. 6 years ago at Venture Madness in Arizona, you told a flustered young adult on the 2nd floor that he should stop caring about what investors think of him and just build. Wanted to let you know that this is still the best piece of advice anyone's ever given me 🙏
- The no bullshit guide to raising angel funding/venture capital as an outsider.
- SV is about to be disrupted by a guy who got rejected from YC 9 times and rejected from every venture capital firm and scout program he applied to. God bless their souls.
- A founder from Nigeria with under 100 followers asked to be scouted. I thought their thing was cool so i did. In a matter of 5 min they: - Were added to our slack of 1,000 global founders - Booked to interview to come onto a US podcast - Are exposed to US investors Wow.
- Here are 20 people to follow on @X if you want to build up your context on how the tech/startup world works.
- If you're a VC or angel looking for deal flow for great companies raising at under a $15M post money valuation, DM me to intro yourself. I don't charge cash or carry on either side. And I send out deals daily. And there's no algorithm, it's all relationship based so say hi :)
- There are 1,000 viable startups that would take investment at a $3,000,000 valuation right now. The challenge is, SF VCs don't know how to find them, and they don't even WANT to find them. There is a whole class of maker/hacker, not tier 1 school founders who are left in dust.
- Ok, I'm going to formulate a my next newsletter through Twitter threads. The title of the post will be "Venture Capital Isn't Built For Outsiders". I've never done this format before but if people like it, I may do it more often.