Part 1: How to Raise Money for Your Startup, as Explained by a Former Entrepreneur

Paul Zhao
5 min readAug 24, 2020

A condensed and practical roadmap for startup fundraising.
Skip to: Part 2 — Fundraising Assets

Courtesy: Martin Schmetzer

Fundraising for your startup can be simultaneously exciting, nerve-racking, and even daunting. Aside from the mechanics of the term sheet, the negotiations, confronting rejection, and finally landing…

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Paul Zhao

Father, husband, former entrepreneur, corporate PM. I’m constantly looking for diversions to keep the neurons firing, if only a little.