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Don Stein

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🏆 Guide to Raise Capital for XR Startups 🏆

▶️Embark on Your AR/VR Funding Journey with Confidence Think you have the next breakthrough in the realm of AR/VR? You're onto something big? As with any rocket-ship, the journey from concept to reality requires fuel - capital. This is your roadmap to that critical resource. This guide includes: ▶️Introduction▶️Quotes from AR/VR founders▶️Lists of AR/VR Investors▶️Contact info for Leading AR/VR funds▶️Investment Thesis Breakdown▶️Pitch Advice▶️10 Most Common VC Questions for AR/VR▶️Why is...

What makes a great AR/VR CEO? I did my best to aggregate advice from some of the top CEO's in our industry, hopefully this helps you today by putting you into the right founder mindset. My thoughts after meeting the top AR/VR CEOs: Over the past decade, I’ve been a bit of an archaeologist for AR/VR CEO’s. I’ve met so many of them, worked with so many, and have watched so many of them from a front row seat as they embarked on their journey. Working as an investor, an adviser, a friend, and...

We're starting! Ben is the founder of Road to VR, Dean is the lead writer for VentureBeat covering games, we've worked hard over the last week to put together an educational presentation around how you can get press coverage from them and others as an AR/VR founder :) Join us on ZOOM now: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84491349954?pwd=zlgguva4iNDvfcKaMp8Vd3SzqykFiL.1 I hope this conversation is really helpful for you! :) -Don Stein

Reality Check (rsvp) A (virtual) reality check for AR/VR founders from the top tier of VC investors It's my honor to invite you to RSVP now to the most helpful AR/VR funding convo of 2024. We've arranged for the top investor from Lightspeed Venture Partners to share his investing perspective on AR/VR. The audience will be full of founders. Conversation will be curated by myself, it's going to be super helpful for AR/VR startups. Venture Guest… Lightspeed Ventures The investor of all...

VR's Press Engine A critical aspect of growing your AR/VR/3D or Gaming startup is perception It's my honor to invite you to RSVP now to come meet the top two authors in all of AR/VR, 3D, and Gaming. We've arranged for the founder of Road To VR and lead games writer for VentureBeat to share their tips on gaining press coverage. This is going to be extremely helpful for CEO's looking to earn organic coverage of their startup. Featured Guests Road to VR The pioneer of AR/VR blogging, Ben Lang!...

VR's Press Engine A critical aspect of growing your AR/VR startup is perception It's my honor to invite you to RSVP now to come meet the top two authors in all of AR/VR. We've arranged for the two lead writers from Road To VR and VentureBeat to share their tips on gaining press coverage for AR/VR CEO's. This is going to be extremely helpful for CEO's looking to earn organic coverage of their startup. Featured Guests Road to VR The pioneer of AR/VR blogging, Ben Lang! Road to VR has been the...

Venture Capital Reality Check A (virtual) reality check for AR/VR founders from the top VC It's my honor to invite you to RSVP now to the hottest AR/VR conversation of the summer. We've arranged for the top investor from Lightspeed Venture Partners to share his investing perspective on AR/VR. The audience will be full of XR/3D founders. Conversation will be curated by myself, it's going to be super helpful for CEO's. Venture Extraordinaire Lightspeed Ventures The investor of all investors,...

I am vvvvvvvvvvery excited for what's to come! We've got a convo with the legend himself, Ori Inbar (founder of AWE) on July 3rd at 2:30 PM ET. AWE has been the leading XR event since 2010, and pretty much every single person in our industry knows Ori. This is an unbelievable opportunity to meet him and hear his thoughts on AR/VR customers, how to acquire them, and much more. You don't want to miss this one! We hope you can join our Collective to see what we have in store for our private...

I am pummmpped to host this CEO conversation with Arian Ghashghai. With a fund backed by LP Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Andrew Chen of A16Z, years of experience as a technical engineer with Meta, and a mentor at Techstars and Stanford XR, this is going to be a convo with tons of insights. RSVP https://calendly.com/donversationz/arianvcWe're going to cover:(1) What it's like fundraising as a VC and pitching LPs.(2) How does that compare to fundraising as a founder for a startup?(3)...

Final reminder, please submit your pitch deck, today! I’m trying an experiment for the Collective members where I’m collecting all 100 decks and then sending to VCs in my network Can you please submit your PDF deck here by tomorrow: https://www.skool.com/the-spatial-collective-6210/submit-now-sending-pitch-decks-to-investors?p=4ee63957 No promises you get inbound interest, but we might get lucky 🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀 Ping me with Qs,~Don Stein

Please purchase your membership today so we can kick this community off right! https://www.skool.com/the-spatial-collective-6210/about (The #1 resource for AR/VR founders, investors, and pioneers) Finale Event Thank you so much for all of those who have been joining us the past few months. This was our last public event, all RSVP information for future events can be found inside of the 'calendar' in Skool. I'll keep adding them there as I book more monthly people. What's to come? Next week,...