Jason Jones

@henrythe9ths FUNDRAISE

I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup. After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach. Were we solving the right problem? What were we doing wrong? Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing? Were we the right team to build this? We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem. Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round. That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work. We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors. We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage. Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper. And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected. And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works. So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then: Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process (because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder). So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years. Here's what you are getting: • The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C) • 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI • A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually) • An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed) Want access? • Like and share this post • Comment "FUNDRAISE" • Follow me so I can DM you the link I'll send it over ASAP. P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.

@step_basketball @jamelio1230 @CoachSMayfield @IonaPrepSports Good luck to both teams! We hope it is a great game.

Slam Dunk Showcase X Crusader Classic Update for today! Please see the new schedule and adjusted time changes. Doors open at 10am. All games will be seen live on Locallive. Iona Prep Vs. Stepinac is now 4:30pm! @jamelio1230 @CoachSMayfield @IonaPrepSports @IonaPrepSports @StepinacHS @CHSAA_NYC @lohudhoopsmbd @HaggertyNancy @WestchesterPark @westchestergov @dpresnick @KDJmedia1 @rayteodora1 @lohudsports @JoshThomson22 @IonaPrep @erapay5 @daves_joint @HoopDreams_NYC @StepinacJungle @CrusaderParents @Step_Baseball @StepinacLax #Stepinac #CHSAA #NY

@step_basketball @jamelio1230 @CoachSMayfield @IonaPrepSports @step_basketball @IonaPrepSports we bought 26 tickets to tonight's game to bring the Chapel School middle school basketball team to watch you guys. Unfortunately, we have our own game at 5pm so we can't attend your game now that you changed the time.

@vascoabm @Ghost Is the idea to publish much more than you would normally publish, see what indexes on Google, and then edit those articles to improve search rankings?

1200 articles /day pretty insane all of them with: ✅ in-article videos ✅ in-article images ✅auto internal linking ✅auto external linking ✅ Wordpress publishing ✅ Wix publishing ✅ Shopify publishing ✅ @Ghost publishing ✅ Automatic blog (generation + publishing)

Happy New Year everyone! This is going to be a great year!

@Securrency will anyone from your team attend the Converge22 event in SF this week?

Stocks down, bonds down, crypto down. Do you know what is working other than oil and gold? Invoices are still getting paid. Our Gig Economy pool on @centrifuge is one of several short duration, high yield pools currently open to crypto investors. wsj.com/articles/marke…

@lucasvo DeFi 3.0 = cross chain interoperability. Thanks for leading the way, @lucasvo.

Centrifuge: coming to a chain near you. Better than a fork and better than a bridge. Connectors is our solution to the multi chain ecosystem.

@LucaProsperi @Hasu @_PorterSmith @a16z @humancapitol @mhonkasalo @AugWid @0xRetro @fhomoney @RuneKek Like @SebVentures before you, you have been a valuable contributor to MakerDAO and the real world asset community. I am sure this is not the end but rather a new beginning. Thank you @LucaProsperi ! See you on the dirt road.

🧵4/4 -> MANY rallied for me as professional and human I can't thank most for privacy, but very special mention to: @hasu, @_PorterSmith & @a16z, @humancapitol, @mhonkasalo, @AugWid, my hero @0xRetro, Frank - for real, @fhomoney, and of course @RuneKek So long, we just started

1/4 🧵And so my days as CU facilitator @MakerDAO are over - before starting 😂 The ratification vote of Lending Oversight ❤️ attracted 294k voting $MKR - huge record. Most of institutional crypto backed the idea of financial oversight, but that wasn't enough, @RuneKek didn't

@pstehlik Welcome back @pstehlik ! Enjoy the next adventure in your life.

Re-entry commencing - mirror.xyz/pstehlik.eth/X… Let's build a world worth living for. We're sure going to need it! ꩜ ✨

@william_remor 100%

This is what decentralized real world asset onboarding to Centrifuge looks like! The demand is here. Successful businesses see the value proposition in DeFi and Centrifuge ⛓

@centrifuge Impressive new issuer for Centrifuge!

@FinTech_Khan @centrifuge Good luck @FinTech_Khan !

Incredibly excited to share that I am joining @Centrifuge to work on the future of finance!

@MonetSupply Lol.

aaaaaaaa, I’m doxxing :D great to meet some defi ppl irl

@MonetSupply Sounds great. See you this afternoon and then for drinks tonight.

will be in nyc tonight if anyone wanna grab a drink

@centrifuge So who is it? Defactor? It was great to hear Alejandro on @aroundthecoin last week.

👀 👀 👀

⭐️ A new partnership is born. @BlockTower 🤝 @Centrifuge We're joining forces to accelerate the adoption of DeFi in institutional capital. finance.yahoo.com/news/centrifug…

@DoubleBucking No, 3pool and 4pool are pools of stablecoins. Curve is an automated market maker that hosts these pools so that investors can swap one stablecoin for another.

@thedoctor_j Thanks. Is that what 3Pool and 4Pool are?

There is $180 billion in stablecoins and <$500 million in asset backed coins backed by real world assets. Well designed ABCs are high yield, inflation minimized (short duration), low vol, and non-correlated. Seeking peg stability? Get ready for stablecoins to allocate to ABCs.

Reminder: innovation is alive and well in crypto. Keep building, keep innovating. Change the world for the better.