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      The Capital Conundrum: When, How, and Why You Should Raise Money for Your Startup


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      About the Talk

      Techstars Chief Investment Strategy Officer Nicole Glaros discusses the ins and outs of fundraising for your startup — who to raise capital from, what to expect, and how to get them to say yes.

      What You’ll Learn

      • The fundraising process: the who, the pitch, and the close
      • How to run a structured outreach process while building relationships
      • VC math: how much does a company need to exit in order to “return the fund”?

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      Additional ideas and insights from the Techstars network

      Presenter

      Nicole Glaros, Chief Investment Strategy Officer, Techstars
      Nicole started her first company while still in college and since that successful exit, has been supporting, mentoring, and funding startups ever since. She’s currently the Chief Investment Strategy Officer at Techstars, helping to grow it from 10 companies to over 2,500 in the portfolio in the last decade. She was also an early investor in Digital Ocean and knows just how painful the startup process can be.



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      Developing for Developers – Path to Fame, Money, and Happiness


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      About the Talk

      As more people learn how to code, and as more developer platforms enable the creation of software applications, there’s a need for guidance, tools, and services that serve software engineers and technologists, a market segment that is slated to grow to nearly 100 million users by 2025.

      What part will you play? How can you help underserved developers?

      This talk is a call for technologists everywhere to consider creating developer-focused businesses, plus a plug on the advantages to building them on DigitalOcean.

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      About the Presenter

      Raman Sharma is the Head of Product and Programs at DigitalOcean. He has focused on developer tools and services throughout his career — from being a C/C++ developer at Adobe and Veritas, to Product Manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft, to Product Marketer for Microsoft Azure — never straying too far from technology.



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