Pitching Angels 10: Three Ways to Get Funded Without an All-Star Team

DC Palter
4 min readDec 14, 2020
They Can Swing a Bat But Can They Get Funding?

Every startup claims to have an all-star founding team. But let’s be brutally honest — if you really had an all-star team of seasoned executives with multiple exits under your belts, you’d (1) be able to fund that million dollar seed round yourselves without needing our little dribs of cash, or (2) you’d be able to call Tim Draper or Peter Thiel or whichever VCs funded…

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DC Palter

Entrepreneur, angel investor, startup mentor, sake snob. Author of the Silicon Valley mystery To Kill a Unicorn: https://amzn.to/3sD2SGH