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fundRazor

FundRazor is a show focusing on the cutthroat world of fundraising. Host John Bautista interviews leading entrepreneurs to discuss what it takes to get money, and other cutting edge ins and outs of raising capital

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The half-million fundraising behind Vidly

by John Bautista, August 28, 2009

Chrys Bader on how Vidly completed a round in just over a month

Vidly, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from several angel investors, including Ron Conway, who has previously invested in Twitter. In this segment of fundRazor, host John Bautista talks to Chrys Bader, founder and CEO of Vidly, a Y Combinator graduate that makes it easy to share videos on Twitter. Bader shares the Vidly story. Like ...

The fundraising behind Posterous

by John Bautista, August 21, 2009

Garry Tan and Sachin Agarwal on saving money by raising a $750,000 note rather than an equity round

Garry Tan and Sachin Agarwal co-founded Posterous, whose technology makes it easy to publish and share content on the Web, via email. There are two billion email accounts, but only 200 million blogs, leaving 1.8 billion people to reach with the Posterous technology, said Tan. In fundRazor, host John Bautista finds out how the founders went about raising $750,000, from ...

The scoop behind Scoopler's fundraising

by John Bautista, July 9, 2009

Co-founder AJ Asver shares fundraising tips and why Y Combinator is a good home for startups

Scoopler is a graduate of the Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley. The real-time search engine, which came together in 2008, has just closed its seed round of funding. In this segment, John Bautista talks to Scoopler co-founder AJ Asver about how he and his co-founder Dilan Jayawardane raised their initial round of funding, and why they chose to do ...

Xoopit on the virtues of raising less

by John Bautista, June 18, 2009

	Part II of a look at Xoopit's fundraising lessons and advice Xoopit had a chance to take more than its initial round of $1.5 million when it was just getting started. But rather than take the money upfront, Xoopit said "no." Bijan Mirashi, co-founder and CEO of Xoopit, which was formed in the fall 2006, tells John Bautista, host of fundRazor, that he thought raising 12 to 18 months work of ...
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The fundraising behind Xoopit

by John Bautista, June 12, 2009

Bijan Mirashi on the steps he took to get angels and investors all aligned

This is the first segment of a 10-segment show, called fundRazor with John Bautista. In the show, John interviews entrepreneurs and explores their fundraising activities and what it took for these hardworking dreamers to get others - particularly venture capitalists and angel investors - to believe. In this segment, John interviews Bijan Mirashi, co-founder and CEO of Xoopit, which was ...

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by Steven Loeb
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by Kristin Karaoglu
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by Kristin Karaoglu
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by Kristin Karaoglu
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by Steven Loeb
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by Bambi Francisco Roizen