Why Startups Need a Lead Investor

The lead investor does the hard work to make it easy for others to invest

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readSep 6, 2022

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In the earliest rounds of fundraising, the process is ad-hoc.

Founders take money from whoever and whenever they can get it — founders, friends, family, accelerators, and other assorted supporters.

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