Raising a seed round (or any round) is not a given. The tactics that you employ can probably 2x or more the odds of your success.
To address this topic, I teamed up with two of my favorites, Jack Altman and Lenny Rachitsky, to write an in depth guide.
As part of it, we interviewed 12 founders who have raised nearly $9B in venture capital. Thank you to Christina at Vanta, Dylan at Figma, Eric at Ramp, Ivan at Notion, Jason at 37 Signals, Josh at The Browser Company, Karri at Linear, Max at Instacart, Tomer at Gusto, Siqi at Runway, and Zach at Plaid.
Here is the link to the full essay, Raising a Seed Round 101.