Crunchbase is a great way to start planning your raise. Sort through investors that could be a fit for your startup, see how much capital funds have to deploy, and track recent deals they’ve done.
When you’re pitching investors, you should be updating and improving your pitch deck after every meeting. Beautiful AI is a simple slide deck creation platform, enabling you to make changes to your pitch in seconds.
Not quite a spreadsheet, not quite a database, Airtable is a great way to track the progress of your round. Set up a funnel and fill it with investors you are meeting with, and track conversion as you start to meet with funds.
I haven’t personally used Foundersuite, but it is a tool that specifically focuses on tracking the fundraising process. Similar to how you can use Airtable for fundraising, but a fully-baked solution.
My RocketReach subscription has paid for itself many times over. I use RocketReach to find the emails of investors I don’t have an intro to. You’d be surprised how often cold emails work!
Use LinkedIn after you know who you want as investors. Search the names of the partners you want to work with, and quickly find any potential intros you can get to them.
Working with GPT-3 is just a game of figuring out how to structure text to get the results you want.
Here are some methods that work well.
Some of these methods can be used together. There’s an art to figuring out which methods are best for obtaining the results you want.
You can use zero-shot, one-shot, or few-shot methods, depending on the task. Your goal should typically be to zero-shot or one-shot, as latency and costs will be lower.