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When startup founders need to navigate fundraising without financial education

My co-founder and I are trying to raise our first round of funding but we don't really understand how valuations work, what different types of investors want, or how equity dilution will affect us, and we're afraid of making decisions that will hurt us later.

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Critical business decisions require sophisticated financial understanding that was never part of their entrepreneurial preparation.

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