Don Stein

Unlock Your Fundraising Potential with Our Exclusive Program Are you a pre-seed or seed-stage startup founder looking to master the art of fundraising? Our new Fundraise Accelerator is designed to equip 1,000 startup founders with the tools, strategies, and network they need to secure funding and scale their ventures in 2025. This is your opportunity to gain access to weekly live coaching, expert insights, and a proven system that has helped numerous founders close their rounds successfully....

Hosting a fundraise strategy workshop for about 50 founders focused on AI, 3D, and Frontier Tech (aka, crazy ideas). You should 100% attend on Wednesday at 12 PM ET if you're building something crazy and need funding. 🚀 Attend I'm looking for those founders with $100K+ raised, growing recurring revenues, with an ugly duct-taped together product and team. Those are the best startup stories. -Don Stein p.s. You'll also get THREE free gifts from me for attending :)

Hosting a fundraise strategy workshop for about 50 founders focused on AI, 3D, and Frontier Tech (aka, crazy ideas). You should 100% attend on Wednesday at 12 PM ET if you're building something crazy and need funding. I'm looking for those founders with $100K to $4M raised, growing recurring revenues, with an ugly duct-taped together product and team. Those are the best startup stories. 🚀 Attend See you there, Don Stein

(Virtual) Reality Check Wednesday: GOLF+ CEO joins us to chat XR startup advice Ryan figured it out. He launched a VR startup, he achieved millions of revenue, and millions of funding. He continues to grow as one of the top grossing app's on Meta Quest. He has pioneered a new category of XR gaming/lifestyle, and I even used to use GOLF+ for remote business meetings (way more fun). RSVP to meet him. Special Guest: XR Founder Coach Ryan Engle, GOLF+ This is a great opportunity to sit down with...

Dear Pioneers, Last year I worked with 100 AR/VR founders helping them grow and fundraise, this year my goal is to work with 1,000 founders ranging across AI, Crypto, Frontier SaaS, and of course VR, too. The game of Venture Capital is just that, a game. The rules are quite simple, network with the right people, and build innovative products that generate sustained revenue. If you can do those two things, and prove it with data, then you can advance up the levels and raise $100M. Anyone can...

I’ve spent the last 5 months working with 7 founders on their fundraise, it reminded me how obsessive you need to be. It brought me back to the days of my raising, and put into the forefront how insanely brainwashed you need to become. The founder who refuses to leave even a single stone unturned is the one who elevates the company. They are the one who gets rejected 100 times and keeps trying because they know in their gut they have a special startup. Fundraising requires an insane amount of...

RSVP: https://www.skool.com/fundraise-collective-4446/about I’ll also give away 10 free resources to attendees (only attendees). Half of fundraising is just simply showing up. See you there, Don Stein

Spatial Collective Preview and Recap Your Weekly Digest of the Best Conversations & Insights At the end of the newsletter, I’ll share more details on why to RSVP for our Wednesday Conversation where we are thrilled to be joined by Angelo Del Priore, An Investor, Board Member and Advisor leading team's work for HP's $45B+ Personal Systems group and currently focused on Data Science picks and shovels, Edge Computing, Future of Work and AR/VR. Last Wednesday - Top Moments Yesterday’s session,...

$10.8M Worth of Fundraising Lessons Fundraising is AWESOME... ....if you re-frame it to networking. My startup journey over the last 10 years has been a wild one; starting three companies raising $10.8M building a company to 20 employees while living in London hosting 30+ networking events for VCs while living in San Francisco working for Meta and funding VR startups hosting 5K+ attendees for virtual events in 2024 and finally, again going indie by building a founder-only community of 150+...

Meet the Founder who partnered with Qualcomm to compete with Apple & Meta on Hardware The world of extended reality (XR) is evolving slower than AI or Crypto, yet still major tech giants like Meta and Apple are pouring billions into the field. Amongst this landscape of industry titans, a startup like Immersed is defying the odds with it's product, Visor — strapped, agile, and fiercely determined to prove out their vision. Renji, the founder of Immersed (Visor), recently shared his journey,...