Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.

https://twitter.com/harris

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

https://twitter.com/craigcannon

Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.

Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

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Topics
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Seed fundraising process
3:15 - Emailing investors
9:15 - Parallelized fundraising process
12:00 - Meeting with investors
14:00 - Overcapitalization
16:50 - Communicating your plan to investors
18:45 - Evaluating investors
22:40 - Fundraising process for a Series A company
26:45 - Meeting Series A investors
28:40 - Post-Demo Day psychology