1. Get a huge list of all investors. Search on f6s or ask people that raised before. I have started with a list of 1000 investors.

2. Define your perfect investor. Like with a product you need to define your target audience here. Don’t search for funds if you don’t have “The Ask”. Besides money ask yourself where what types of connections you need. What kind of sectors are they in?

3. Sort out the investors by matching factors. On the top of the list should be the ones that are the most aligned with your picture of a perfect investor.

4. Do your homework. Get to know people that you are writing or applying to heir forms. I can’t stress enough how powerful personalization is.

5. Set a routine. Getting initial funding is not an easy task. It eats up time and motivation. Setting routine tasks that you will perform every day will help a lot.

6. Start at the bottom of the list. You will probably fail first. We all do, start with the worst investor and learn there so at the time you come to the top you’ll be at your a-game.

7. I am preparing a public Notion Template with a list of investors and a routine pipeline. Would you be interested? Email me and I’ll send you a link.