Fundraising is hard, and it’s critical to have a game-plan and process for raising capital. In this episode, Steve Barsh discusses some strategies that founders can use to close a new round of funding. He talks about how to create momentum, revenue metrics you’ll need to show for seed and Series A funding, what a typical timeline looks like, how to determine the amount of capital you need to raise, and more.

In this episode of #DreamitLive, Dreamit’s Steve Barsh speaks with Gil Beyda, Managing Director at Comcast Ventures and Founder & Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures. Steve and Gil dive into why pre-IPO unicorn startups are failing and post IPO valuations are dropping.

Dreamit Managing Partner Steve Barsh talks about how early-stage startups and their founders should avoid discussion exit strategy with investors and why it’s important to paint a powerful vision for VCs about how you’re going to dominate your market and grow a big, powerful, profitable, and meaningful company. If that all occurs, the right exit strategy will come along.

Steve Barsh speaks with Anthony Bucci about bootstrapping RevZilla from $0 to 250+ people and a successful exit. They talk about Bucci’s ups and downs, leadership ideas, growth, surprises along the way, and key learnings. And they touch upon the founder and startup attributes Anthony finds compelling now that he is angel investing in the next generation of startups.

Dreamit’s Steve Barsh speaks with AJ Bruno about scaling B2B sales from seed to exit. AJ co-founded TrendKite, where he was responsible for all growth operations ($0-$25 million) and which was acquired for $225m by Cision (NYSE: Cision).