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Description
Most first-time managers pitch their strategy and lose on everything else. I allocated capital to managers for five years — capital I could withdraw whenever execution slipped, which made me a harder audience than most — and ran investment due diligence on 100+ funds. I also sat on the receiving end of prime brokers' capital introduction: I was the allocator they were pitching to. This package rehearses your raise against the person who decides. Key components include, but are not limited to: - Full mock investment due diligence, with written feedback - Pitchbook and DDQ teardown: what allocators read, in what order, and what makes them stop reading - Track record presentation: attribution, portability, and how to handle the gaps honestly - What I saw across 100+ managers: the operational and structural choices that made allocators uncomfortable, and the ones that never came up — so you know where to spend your time and money before a formal operational review - Capital introduction, from the other side: what PB cap intro actually delivers versus what it promises, how managers get selected for it, and how allocators - really treat those introductions - Mapping your capital: family offices, institutional allocators, seeders and platforms — what each wants, and what each costs you - Terms and seed deal negotiation: revenue shares, capacity rights, and what to concede last - Why funds fail to scale after a successful launch, and the signals allocators watch for
What you'll get from this package
Survive a full mock investment due diligence and fixed what it exposed
A pitch tested against someone who has declined more managers than they've backed
A realistic understanding of what prime brokerage capital introduction delivers, so you can evaluate what a PB promises you
A defined negotiating position on terms and any seed discussion
Additional details
Coaching delivered via live sessions.
Services included:
Compensation Strategy
Hiring
Business Strategy Development
Legal Research
Branding
Fundraising
Go-to-Market Strategy
Market Research
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Offered by Paul W.
Joined August 2026
5.0
2x Finance Founder — I've Also Been the Investor You Pitch
I've founded twice in finance — one of the hardest industries in which to start anything. After a decade on the sell side and a PM seat, I stepped off the institutional track and spent the next 5+ years as Founder, CIO, and Head of Alternative Investments. First came a hedge-fund allocation practice serving family offices; then an asset management firm I co-founded and took through SFC licensing as its Responsible Officer, building compliance, operations, and a team from a blank page. What began as a Private Equity and Real Estate shop grew into a Multi-strategy Alternative Investments platform as I brought my own hedge-fund business onto it and onboarded a fixed-income team — zero to one, then one to many. No accelerator, no playbook; just the unglamorous work of turning ideas into firms that regulators would license and sophisticated clients would trust. And I'm building still, though not a company this time: armed with undergraduate C++ and a beginner's Python course, I've taught myself agentic-AI development and now run an investment platform of my own design. Just as valuable to founders: I've spent years as the capital on the other side of the table. As an allocator for family offices, I ran due diligence on 100+ fund managers — and a fund pitch is a business pitch: I was underwriting the team, the edge, the operational spine, and whether the firm itself would survive, before allocating capital I could pull the moment execution slipped. Money with a redemption right is the most impatient money in finance, and learning what keeps it in the room teaches you exactly how professional capital separates a fundable operation from a good story. Add a 15+ year with institutions — ten as a sell-side analyst, five inside hedge funds as analyst and PM — spent dissecting why businesses win or fail, and you get what investors think but rarely say out loud: where your model breaks, what your numbers really signal, which narrative raises money and which quietly kills the meeting. If you're building in fintech or asset management, raising from family offices or LPs, or leaving a corporate career to found something of your own, I've walked that road — and sat across the table from a hundred-plus teams pitching for capital.
$1,740.18
5h–10h of coaching