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“ Chief Meme Officer ” was once Turner Novak ’s tongue - in - buttock job title , and his 161,300 X follower probably know why . Yet , he has it clear : “ If you mean about raising a speculation fund and you need to bring up $ 50 million , somebody ’s not going to say : ‘ Wow , that ’s a dandy meme , here ’s $ 10 million . ”
Why all the memes , then ? Because “ it ’s a good way to fill up the word of mouth and maybe meet someone , ” Banana Capital ’s father enjoin at TechCrunch Disrupt .
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Novak was sharing the Builders Stage with fellow come forth fund managers Noramay Cadena and Mac Conwell . The three of them have one matter in common : They are building their venture house in public .
“ Building in public ” means different affair to different people . “ I do n’t practise absolute transparency in any look of my life , ” Cadena said , evoke laughs . Her house , Supply Change Capital , also tip more toward blogging and LinkedIn posts than memes and tweets . But she , Novak and Conwell agree that creating capacity is a pipeline strategy .
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When launching his house RareBreed Ventures while being very participating on societal media , Conwell noticed at first hand that it was n’t a cure-all . “ In my first 90 24-hour interval of fundraising doing the Twitter strategy , I did over 1,100 meetings ; that only cushy - circle $ 3 million because at the end of the day , . . . they still have to require to enthrone in you or gift your fund because you have a dissertation , because you have a point of view , because you have a production . ”
While the panelists are VCs , their advice also applies to founders : “ Just because you have 100,000 followers on Twitter does n’t signify you ’re going to get funded , ” Conwell said .
Why bother?
It may not get you funded , but a warm online presence can get you the first get together , and that ’s authoritative , too .
Conwell ’s anecdote on his 1,100 meetings is not that anecdotic ; Cadena recalled sitting down with some 400 prospective LPs in the first six month of advance her fund . “ Those meetings yielded 19 investors and $ 2.1 million , and that ’s the uppercase that got us in business , ” she said .
The fact that this initial amount of money was n’t that far from what an entrepreneur might seek to raise also indicates that this piece of advice applies to both side of the table . Even more so in the current fundraising environment : When “ no ” becomes the default answer from investors , closing a turn often becomes a numbers game plot . The more merging , the more chance to deliver the goods , and that requires a wide funnel .
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Getting enough people to pay attending to you and to your dissertation can help beyond elicit money . For case , Cadena recall that it also help Supply Change Capital establish a net of co - investors , and verify that the inbound softwood do her way were relevant . And again , that ’s just an example .
“ Building in public is a agency to fill up a word of mouth of some kind , whether you ’re raising a venture investment company , a founder acquiring customers , elevate money for your company , you have a go at it , insert whatever you ’re doing , ” Novak said . As for our three panelist ’ take on how to do it and what may or may not mould depending on your profile , make trusted to keep an eye on the full video :
