Tracy DiNunzio

And so I love making it simple because it actually is simple.

The biggest thing you need to fundraise is confidence. And if you don't have confidence, you need to have the ability to fake confidence, which was what I had because I felt very unsure and very insecure and very out of my depth when I first started meeting investors for all kinds of reasons. And it just wasn't my world initially, but I was good at faking it, at putting on a bit of a

The biggest thing you need to fundraise is confidence. And if you don't have confidence, you need to have the ability to fake confidence, which was what I had because I felt very unsure and very insecure and very out of my depth when I first started meeting investors for all kinds of reasons. And it just wasn't my world initially, but I was good at faking it, at putting on a bit of a

The biggest thing you need to fundraise is confidence. And if you don't have confidence, you need to have the ability to fake confidence, which was what I had because I felt very unsure and very insecure and very out of my depth when I first started meeting investors for all kinds of reasons. And it just wasn't my world initially, but I was good at faking it, at putting on a bit of a

mask and putting out big CAC energy. I can tell you a bunch of other things that are helpful for fundraising, but those are all things you can Google, right? You can look up like the standard 10 slide deck that you should have and all of that. But investors are just human beings.

mask and putting out big CAC energy. I can tell you a bunch of other things that are helpful for fundraising, but those are all things you can Google, right? You can look up like the standard 10 slide deck that you should have and all of that. But investors are just human beings.

mask and putting out big CAC energy. I can tell you a bunch of other things that are helpful for fundraising, but those are all things you can Google, right? You can look up like the standard 10 slide deck that you should have and all of that. But investors are just human beings.

And as a human being, when you feel like someone is holding on to a magical secret and they're on a magic carpet ride, you just want to be part of it. And I think your energy when you go in to pitch an investor is so much more important. You have to have your T's crossed and your I's dotted. Your numbers have to fit. Your plan has to make sense. You have to know your business.

And as a human being, when you feel like someone is holding on to a magical secret and they're on a magic carpet ride, you just want to be part of it. And I think your energy when you go in to pitch an investor is so much more important. You have to have your T's crossed and your I's dotted. Your numbers have to fit. Your plan has to make sense. You have to know your business.

And as a human being, when you feel like someone is holding on to a magical secret and they're on a magic carpet ride, you just want to be part of it. And I think your energy when you go in to pitch an investor is so much more important. You have to have your T's crossed and your I's dotted. Your numbers have to fit. Your plan has to make sense. You have to know your business.

You have to understand your category. But you also have to walk in like you know the future. And it's so good that you can't even believe you might share a piece of it with these guys. And that's contagious. And that's actually what gets them to fund it. Did you instinctively know that or did you go in timid to start? I wrestled with getting my mask on straight.

You have to understand your category. But you also have to walk in like you know the future. And it's so good that you can't even believe you might share a piece of it with these guys. And that's contagious. And that's actually what gets them to fund it. Did you instinctively know that or did you go in timid to start? I wrestled with getting my mask on straight.

You have to understand your category. But you also have to walk in like you know the future. And it's so good that you can't even believe you might share a piece of it with these guys. And that's contagious. And that's actually what gets them to fund it. Did you instinctively know that or did you go in timid to start? I wrestled with getting my mask on straight.

So I had an investor tell me early on when I was in this incubator program, you feel defeated. And I was the last out of the 10 companies in the program to raise capital. I did feel defeated. I had pitched all the same investors that everybody else had pitched, and nobody wanted me. And everybody else was raising money.

So I had an investor tell me early on when I was in this incubator program, you feel defeated. And I was the last out of the 10 companies in the program to raise capital. I did feel defeated. I had pitched all the same investors that everybody else had pitched, and nobody wanted me. And everybody else was raising money.

So I had an investor tell me early on when I was in this incubator program, you feel defeated. And I was the last out of the 10 companies in the program to raise capital. I did feel defeated. I had pitched all the same investors that everybody else had pitched, and nobody wanted me. And everybody else was raising money.

And we had a bell that you could ring when you closed capital, and I just wasn't ringing the bell. So I did feel very defeated and he basically told me like he could smell it on me. And I took my business very personally. I felt like it was an extension of me for better or worse. It's not like a great way to live your life, but it is a great way to put all your heart and soul into your business.

And we had a bell that you could ring when you closed capital, and I just wasn't ringing the bell. So I did feel very defeated and he basically told me like he could smell it on me. And I took my business very personally. I felt like it was an extension of me for better or worse. It's not like a great way to live your life, but it is a great way to put all your heart and soul into your business.

And we had a bell that you could ring when you closed capital, and I just wasn't ringing the bell. So I did feel very defeated and he basically told me like he could smell it on me. And I took my business very personally. I felt like it was an extension of me for better or worse. It's not like a great way to live your life, but it is a great way to put all your heart and soul into your business.

So, yeah, I felt really bad every time an investor didn't jump at my pitch, but I got really good at hiding it.