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Modern Startup Funding (SUS 2019)

by Carolynn Levy
FinanceFundraisingLegalSafes

YC Partner and GC Carolynn Levy detail the basics of startup financing and how modern early stage rounds of financing are done using convertible securities, like the SAFE.

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