How to Raise Startup Funding via Phone or Zoom

Gabe Zichermann
7 min readMay 8, 2020
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Modern startup fundraising is designed around the principle of in-person pitches. Whether those are demo days, initial/final meetings or anything in between, a lot of time is spent by entrepreneurs learning how to convey energy and earnestness from the front of a banal board room.

But COVID-19, and potential social distancing measures, will upend how startups raise money. This will…

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Gabe Zichermann

Author and Public Speaker on Gamification, The 4th Industrial Revolution, the Future of Work and Failure. More about me: https://gabezichermann.com