Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

If you want to raise venture capital funding, then check these points to see if you are venture fundable:

Do you have the following:

• Recurring revenue - Do you have recurring revenue in your model?
• Platform-based approach - Are you taking a platform-based approach to the product/service delivery, or do you sell one-off products?
• Data-centric - Are you capturing key data elements that improve your process and product?
• Strong Team - Do you have a strong team? Does each member bring expertise about their field to your business?
• Fast Growth (>50% YoY) - Are you growing at least 50% YoY?
• Large Target Market - Are you targeting a market over $1B?

The more check marks you have on this list the more fundable you are with VCs.

Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.

Let’s go startup something today.
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Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

Raising funding requires document and business preparation as well as pitching and extensive followup.

Throughout the process there’s one thing you need to do before you can raise the funding. 

You need to build a relationship with the investor.

If you are raising funding through a crowdfunding portal you can call that interaction a relationship, but only if you’re raising $500.

If you’re raising $50,000, then you’ll need to build a deeper relationship.

As you go through the process of gaining introductions, contacting investors, setting up meetings, pitching, and so forth, remember the fundamental goal is to come away with a deeper relationship.

From each interaction, the investor knows more about you and you know more about the investor. 

Even if the pitch doesn’t go as planned and the meeting didn’t stay on track, you still grew the relationship.

Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.

Let’s go startup something today.
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This is Investor Perspectives, I’m the host of Investor Connect, Hall T Martin, where we connect startups and investors for funding.

In today’s show, you’ll hear investor perspectives on the COVID-19 impact on the cannabis market.

It’s the time of COVID-19. Cannabis is currently gaining regulatory approval across the U.S. The lockdown has declared certain sectors, including cannabis, to be an essential service. We have investors and startup founders describe the impact of COVID-19 on the cannabis market.

Our featured guests are:

Matthew Nordgren - 0:42
Ben Larson - 5:52
David Hess -7:55
Marcus Estes - 10:25
Narbe Alexandrian -15:27

I hope you enjoy this episode.

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In this episode, Hall welcomes back Christian Kameir, Managing Partner at Sustany Capital.

Sustany Capital is a blockchain venture fund headquartered in Newport Beach, CA. Aside from investing in blockchain-related projects, the firm lends its expertise to existing companies interested in 'security token offerings'​.

Christian has been a technology investor for the past 20+ years. He was a software engineer in the 1980s, and then studied and became a lawyer some years later. In the 1990s, he was Counsel to the first web-based unified messaging software startup (Callas). He then moved on to Tiscali where he lead the merger of Germany's first private Internet Service Provider with Europe’s largest telecom company. In the early 2000s, he was managing partner at a venture fund focused on gaming platforms and voice over IP solutions. In the late 2000s, he founded Clizer Inc, the first decentralized web-based rating system, and pay-per-call solution. Between 2010 and 2017, Christian was an adjunct professor at California International Business University and guest lecturer at University of California, San Diego, Rady School of Management. Between 2018 to the present, he has been a freelancer for the Forbes Finance Council writing on the impact of technology on finance and society.

Christian gives Hall an update on the investments the company has made since they last spoke, the sectors he sees growing well and those which are not, one of the startups he had a very good experience with, an update on the blockchain space and much more.

You can visit Sustany Capital at www.Sustany.co.   

Christian can be contacted via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/kameir/, and via email at chris@sustany.co. 

See his Forbes page at https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/people/christiankameir1/#10e934265b08.