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Friday, November 13, 2020
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Practical advice from a VC: raising and managing your company capital (with Geoff Schneider)

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In the very first episode of OTR, I'm chatting with an early stage private investor and founder of Cava Capital Geoff Schneider. Lots of practical takeaways in this one.

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Here’s what you’ll hear more about:

- What is the one thing CEO’s don’t ask Geoff (while raising money) and he wish they did
- How not to be taken advantage of when you are raising capital as a CEO
- How to make sure you are not raising too much capital and not giving away too much of the -ownership of your own company
- How to avoid spending wrong marketing dollars if you are B2C company
- Mistakes B2B founders make after raising money and how to avoid it

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