The Fundraising Myth Entrepreneurs Need to Stop Believing

Aaron Dinin, PhD
5 min readJun 9, 2020
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Most reputable venture capital firms will include language on their websites describing what stage companies they invest in: seed stage, early stage, growth stage, late stage, etcetera. For entrepreneurs, this information is critical because it helps indicate whether or not their startups would be a good fit with the firm’s investing thesis. After all, there’s no sense pitching a VC firm…

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Aaron Dinin, PhD

I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com