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		cephaslr on Oct 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck As far as I can tell if the team is prestigious enough, i.e. famous founders or stacked pedigrees, it can raise a few million without a single line of code. There are many examples of this that can be inferred if you look at crunchbase and linkedin start dates for various companies.

JumpCrisscross on Oct 14, 2020 [–]

The flip side of this: pitch someone with a track record to join your founding team. It will help with more than just fundraising.

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