#140 - Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/harris">Aaron Harris</a> is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.<br><br>He’s on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/harris">@harris</a>.<br><br>The YC podcast is hosted by <a href=" https://twitter.com/craigcannon">Craig Cannon</a>.<br><br>Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.<br><br>Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/">https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/</a><br><br>***<br><br><b>Topics</b><br><br>00:00 - Intro<br><br>00:42 - Seed fundraising process<br><br>3:32 - Emailing investors<br><br>9:32 - Parallelized fundraising process<br><br>12:17 - Meeting with investors<br><br>14:17 - Overcapitalization<br><br>17:07 - Communicating your plan to investors<br><br>19:02 - Evaluating investors <br><br>22:57 - Fundraising process for a Series A company<br><br>27:02 - Meeting Series A investors<br><br>28:57 - Post-Demo Day psychology<br></p>