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EPISODE · May 26, 2026 · 5 MIN

The 60-Day Pre-Seed Sprint That Raised 500k

from The Pre-Seed Podcast with Fexingo: Idea-Stage Founders, First Checks, and Earliest Funding · host Fexingo

Most pre-seed rounds take six months or more. This episode breaks down exactly how one SaaS founder went from zero revenue to a $500,000 pre-seed close in just sixty days. Lucas and Luna walk through the specific tactics: how she built a micro-waitlist of 400 beta users before writing a line of product code, how she used that waitlist to generate buy-me-a-coffee-dot-com-slash-fexingo-style micro-commitments from 40 strangers that became her first angel investors, and why she priced her round at a $4 million cap instead of the $6 million her advisor recommended. You'll hear the exact email sequence she used to convert waitlist signups into check-writers, the one number she tracked daily that predicted her close rate, and the mistake that nearly killed the round on day 45. If you're an idea-stage founder trying to close your first round faster than the typical timeline, this episode gives you a repeatable playbook — not generic advice. #PreSeed #SaaS #StartupFunding #AngelInvesting #FounderAdvice #WaitlistStrategy #RevenueValidation #CapTable #ConvertibleNote #MicroCommitment #BuyMeACoffee #FounderStory #60DaySprint #EarlyStageVC #BusinessPodcast #FexingoBusiness #StartupLessons #IdeaStage Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

Most pre-seed rounds take six months or more. This episode breaks down exactly how one SaaS founder went from zero revenue to a $500,000 pre-seed close in just sixty days. Lucas and Luna walk through the specific tactics: how she built a micro-waitlist of 400 beta users before writing a line of product code, how she used that waitlist to generate buy-me-a-coffee-dot-com-slash-fexingo-style micro-commitments from 40 strangers that became her first angel investors, and why she priced her round at a $4 million cap instead of the $6 million her advisor recommended. You'll hear the exact email sequence she used to convert waitlist signups into check-writers, the one number she tracked daily that predicted her close rate, and the mistake that nearly killed the round on day 45. If you're an idea-stage founder trying to close your first round faster than the typical timeline, this episode gives you a repeatable playbook — not generic advice. #PreSeed #SaaS #StartupFunding #AngelInvesting #FounderAdvice #WaitlistStrategy #RevenueValidation #CapTable #ConvertibleNote #MicroCommitment #BuyMeACoffee #FounderStory #60DaySprint #EarlyStageVC #BusinessPodcast #FexingoBusiness #StartupLessons #IdeaStage Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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