how to fundraise for your startup in us

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Hardi Meybaum, CEO founders @ grabcad.com @grabcad Hardi Meybaum twitter: @hardi_meybaum

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GrabCAD at Garage48 HUB on 26th of July 2011 giving lesson about fundraising in US: about GrabCAD and 3 short lessons to learn.

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Hardi Meybaum, CEOfounders @ grabcad.com@grabcad

Hardi Meybaumtwitter: @hardi_meybaum

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GrabCADGrabCAD

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- increases sales- increases sales

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“Want to design the lightest electric superbike?”

99 designs for CAD

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One week, 150 different design ideasOne week, 150 different design ideas

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Who am I to teach you?Who am I to teach you?

• Raised 1.5M+ USD from 15 investors (13 outside Europe)

• Only Company who have won both SeedCamp and Techstars

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Who did I get there?Who did I get there?

~ 800 new connection in 9 months~ 70 presentation to ~ 3000 people

~ GrabCAD_presentation_ver281 .. and counting

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Lesson learnedLesson learned

Accelerators are nice, but expensive

be

Man/Women to take advantage

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Lesson learnedLesson learned

Network like crazy

you

never know who will play important role

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Lesson learnedLesson learned

You don’t ask money

you

will help investor make more money

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Lesson learnedLesson learned

And this is all irrelevant

if

Your product doesn’t have traction

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