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“The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.” – Ratatouille  Hi 👋, thanks for visiting. My name is Terrence Rohan. Based in San Francisco, I’m a seed investor. I’ve been a board member, advisor, investor to 100+ companies over the past 15+ years. I love what I do. I serve 🦸‍♀️🦸 As an investor, below are some of the founders I’m fortunate to support: Dar & Kelsie @ Casual […]

How to raise a seed round

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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 […]

Raise Less, Build More

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Entrepreneurship / Trends / Uncategorized / Venture Capital

The conventional venture capital funding path – from raising an institutional Seed, Series A, B, C, D, E, etc, all the way to exit via IPO – has long been treated as gospel. Its verses are most heavily preached by VC board members, whose business model it also supports.  But there is an influential tide of founders on the rise that is opting out of this path and quietly plotting a new one that leads […]