Don Stein

Who is Gene Munster? Maybe this photo below will spark your memory: Apply to Pitch Gene, May 14! He's been nice enough to agree to listen to the startup pitches of 15 CEO's. Are you one of them? Apply here This is a rare chance to pitch a finance icon, ~Don Stein Founder https://www.uglystartups.com/

You're Invited to Pitch Top VC's on May 14th You're invited to pitch Gene of Deepwater & Bradford of SignalFire Ventures at our Demo Day. RSVP to Pitch Bradford Jones invests from SignalFire's $3B fund. Previous to this he was at Insight Partners until 2023, deployed $600 million across application software, data infrastructure, security, and consumer internet. Focuses on early-stage investments in applied AI/ML and vertical SaaS companies. He's on the board of UpRound Ventures at the...

Apply to Pitch at our Shark Tank style Demo Day on May 14th The Sharks (Two Top VC's) The Founders (could be you) I'll be selecting 15 founders to come pitch these Sharks, apply below BEFORE MAY 6TH. You must apply in order to pitch them. APPLY TO PITCH See you next Weds! ~Don Stein Apply here: https://o7no1n5re70.typeform.com/to/ZEI4AVvn 113 Cherry St #92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2205Unsubscribe · Preferences

SHARK TANK x UGLY STARTUPS Apply to pitch two of the world's top VC funds Live on ZOOM on May 14th Apply Now The Sharks The Founders Apply Now This is going to be fun! Hope you win a chance to pitch them. ~Don Stein don@virtualrealityinvestment.com Www.LinkedIn.com/in/donstein

We do calls every Wednesday, you can get a 50% discount here for anyone who wants to join our early-stage founder group. p.s. Here's three more cool founder stories to inspire: -Don

RSVP to attend our VC Investor Conversation with Adam Draper tomorrow. We have over 350 RSVP's, it's going to be a full house of investors! RSVP for Adam Draper! Hope you join tomorrow! -Don Stein p.s. Want some help fundraising? Apply here on TypeForm if you'd like my support with your startup fundraise. I'll go through applicants and start to figure out if I can help you meet investors, then I'll reach out so we can go 1:1.

Venture Capital Reality Check Building early-stage startups is HARD, huh? We are 3 days from Adam Draper joining us for a private invite-only conversation for top CEOs and Founders. I really hope you can attend. And, I really hope this helps you with your fundraise, and above and beyond with your overall CEO mindset while operating at the early stage, Conversation Information (on Zoom) 5 of his first 25 investments became Unicorns Coinbase, Amplify, PlanGrid, Sendwave, and Benchling all...

We just passed 222 RSVPs! RSVP Today! Our RSVP-only event with investor and VC, Adam Draper, is going to be a FULL CROWD! RSVP There's still time to RSVP and get involved in the Ugly Startups movement. For the 230 people who are planning to show up, I'm pumped to see you, and am looking forward to leaving your inspired! Let's raise you some capital, and build an iconic startup -Don Stein Founder, UglyStartups.com Linkedin Have questions? Hit reply to this email and we'll help out! 113 Cherry...

I’m trying SO hard to make this an insanely valuable community for all seed stage founders. My goal is to bridge the insider knowledge of Silicon Valley to the ugly startups out there. Every single founder deserves a chance to raise capital, scale a business, and literally change their life and maybe if you exit for enough $$$ then you’ll even change your future generations lives. I’ve seen people do it from absolutely nothing. Esteban an immigrant with everything to prove met me, got...

Special Guest, Richard White Founder of Fathom AI, and UserVoice Yesterday was an absolute treat - we hosted repeat founder, Richard White ($20M+ raised, Linkedin). He founded UserVoice, scaled that, and then started a second company which he runs today. Fathom AI is backed by Zoom's fund, Justin Kan (Twitch Founder), and many more incredible people on his cap table of 100+ investors. We've had incredible guests over the last year (45 of them), but certain CEO's are able to speak from a place...