Be Founder-Friendly To Gain More Dealflow Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso — your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Founders live in the center of the startup world and thus see many companies raising funding. A startup investor will do well to tap into the knowledge of founders about other startups raising funding. An investor who treats founders well will find they are often amenable to making referrals. Here are some key steps on how to be founder-friendly. Be timely with founders’ requests for information such as signed term sheets and invested funds. Make life easier on the founder, as they have plenty of other investors who will end up taking their time for special questions and unique situations. Follow up investor updates with helpful information and words of encouragement. As often as possible, try to help with founder asks including introductions. Update the founder on what you are looking for in startups. Ask for introductions to other founders where they fit the investment criteria. Develop an expertise or skill that founders need and build a reputation for providing some level of it at no cost to founders. This will give founders an easy way to introduce the investor to other startups. Consider these steps for being founder-friendly. Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding. Let’s go startup something today. _______________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ For Investors check out: https://tencapital.group/investor-landing/ For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/ For eGuides check out: https://tencapital.group/education/ For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/ For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group Please follow, share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of Bensound.

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