the earnest ambitious kid's guide to investors
Founders always share investor meeting details with each other and your reputation is everything in our industry. If you are helpful, present, and considerate, then you’re going to get a great reputation. If you are unprofessional, cavalier, or conceited, or use your position of power in any way that isn’t in service of the founder, then you’re toa
... See moreJason Calacanis • Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
Founders are taught to possess enough faith to will whatever they’re working on into existence but are rarely reminded to worship anything but themself. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the point that they often find it hard not to confuse themselves for God — and we all know how that ends.
Molly Mielke • morals
sari and added
For the past decade, our idolatry of startups and innovation has meant the focus has been: What can we disrupt? How fast can we grow? How big can we get? How much can we raise?
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the p... See more
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the p... See more
sublimeinternet.substack.com • Can I Ramble for a Sec?
Britt Gage added
Founders need a new way of thinking, of building, of support that allows them to drive systematic, methodical and meaningful change.
Looking forward to it! The First Meeting (the Intro) The first impression you make on an investor is everything. You better impress the heck out of them. This is best accomplished by being your uncompromising, confident, authentic self. The best way to get to know an investor is through dialogue, not decks
Ryan Breslow • Fundraising
Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner.
The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety: https://t.co/dW7DAcmyng
✍Journal. Relationships, Teachers, 'Sacred' Spaces, and Learning From Chris Davis, Reece Duca, Scott Bessent, Aswath Damodaran, and Morgan Housel
Frederik Gieschenalchemy.substack.com
David Sherry and added
Your job in these meetings is to play Columbo, the unassuming and always underestimated detective from the classic TV show that started in the ’70s and ran for more than three decades. Your job is not to show off or demonstrate how smart you are by explaining to the founder what they’re doing wrong or by bragging about your heroics as an investor o
... See moreJason Calacanis • Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
Advice for other startup founders:
1. Starting a company is annoying and hard in ways you shouldn't expect anyone else to validate or sympathize with
2. The average service job is at least 10x harder
3. Believing you can change the world is only useful as an early motivator, the second it becomes a moral shield it's diminishing returns
4. Yo... See more