Julia Yu

Last year in Unicorns Journal we published an interview with Sergey Bakaev, where we unpacked first-time fundraising strategy expectations vs reality, common mistakes, and what founders often underestimate when raising capital for the first time.

It turned into a very honest conversation.

The old sequence looks like this:

Profile Paywall Lost in a Catalog Investor List Cold Outreach

It s a storefront, not a strategy.

Platforms like Fundable has no personalized matching,

We just published one of the most honest and practical founder interviews we've ever featured in Unicorns Journal.

It s the story of how Sergey Bakaev, co-founder of LovOn, raised $850K after hearing more than 100 rejections with no network and no previous fundraising experience.

A brutally honest, step-by-step breakdown of what pre-seed fundraising actually looks like behind the scenes the pressure, the tactics, the mistakes, and the breakthroughs.

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