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Our first round of venture capital: 263 meetings, 12 months, $128,700

How can I raise my first round of capital? Do I need a product? What metrics do I need to show?I kept asking these questions months after starting work on at Alpe Audio. The more I asked, the more I realized it wasn’t only me asking those questions.So I documented how we did it... Early stage fundraising is the most misunderstood and untold stage of startup life.I'm talking pre product, pre...

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Is launching on Product Hunt worth it?

There's so much out there on HOW to launch here on PH, but not so much of a discussion on whether it's worth the effort.After our launch where we took #1 product of the day, I sat down to run an analysis on whether it was worth it or not:‘Worth it’ is a relative term. For us it was, despite traffic, signups and purchases undershooting our expectations.So why was it worth it?The benefits to...

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