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Robert Steven Kramarz

VC startup funding investor, advisor to investors and entrepreneurs, specializing in leadership and team building. For friends, clients & portfolio companies, like family, I provide a safe space where they can create.

Austin, Texas, United States · 1 connection

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"It's all about the people and cognitive diversity when raising capital." "We never ever let our companies run out of cash." "Investors will write a check if and only if they trust the founders." "Founder-cofounder fit is more predictive of long-term success than product-market fit." "Assume your investors bet on the jockey, not on the horse. You'll probably be wrong, but if wrong, lead them to the light." "If you do what most founders do when raising capital, you'll get the same results that most founders get, which is bupkis, nada, zilch. Pitch yourself and your team as trustworthy and amazingly capable of carrying out any similar plan, much more than pitching your plan itself." For my articles and videos on raising capital for innovation, go here: Specialties: Empowering Vision Masters (CEOs, Founders, Partners, Innovators) through unconventional methods, assessing winning founders, reaching VC and angel investors quickly; organization development, selecting the right executives who lead your team quickly to results. --- Mission: Fix 90% of angel and VC capital going to losers. This is unfair and wasteful. I'm committed to correcting this and getting winners the capital they nee

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz
BA Psychology and education
1970 to 1974
Caltech
Physics
1968 to 1970
Caltech
Physics & environmental studies
1968 to 1970