The Startup Life · Track 6
Smile Through the Silence
Piano-Driven Indie Folk · Intimate, building, bittersweet
Marc McCabe · A playbook for fundraising
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“Fundraising is incredibly opaque, asymmetrical, and is often the difference between having a company and not.”- Marc McCabe
The Story Behind This Song
A founder carves slides at 2AM, pitches to the mirror, melts through 8 months of runway. Five pitches a day for two straight weeks, warm handshakes then silence. Then one VC leans in and asks about the dream, not the deck.
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