1. Set a Deadline to Create Urgency2. Network Your Way to Investors Through Entrepreneurs3. Time Media Around a Raise4. Inflate Demand5. Play Investors Against One Another6. Use Software to Get to Know Investors7. Use Social Media to Turn Cold Outreaches into Warm Leads8. Make Local Investors Think You Have Valley Interest9. Say When You’ll Be in Town, Even if You Don’t Know Yet10. Act Like You’re Based in the Valley—At Least Part-Time