How to handle investor rejection (and still raise over $0.5M for your start-up) | James Behzadi (Kintell)
Description
This is the conclusion of a 2-part conversation with James Behzadi, the CEO and Co-founder of Kintell, a digital platform that connects subject matter experts with learners across any topic for a video learning session. James is a wealth of knowledge and shares his learnings with great stories.
In Part 1, James shared how he vetted his co-founder and how he decided that a SAFE note was the best fundraising option for Kintell. On this episode, James discusses the myth of start-up fundraising that is perpetuated in the media, and he shares the steps Kintell took to win over $500,000 in the much-coveted “Accelerating Commercialisation” grant and what to do when an investor does not want to invest in your start-up.
Resources and links:
- Fantastic Fungi
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book/movie
- Wu Tiao Ren | Spotify
- We Crashed | Spotify
- Reed Hastings: Building Netflix (by Matt Burgess)
- That will NEVER work (by Marc Randolph co-founder of Netflix)
- Shoe dog (the story of Nike) (by Phil Knight)
- Crossing the chasm (by Geoffrey Moore)
- Blitzscaling (by Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh)
- Apple Airpods
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