I wanted to share my most memorable VC pass email of all time, Maple back in the fall from @schlaf. Thoughtful and empathetic:
"I've been wrong more than I've been right so take this all with a grain of salt. I hope you prove me wrong and make me regret this decision."
Make it easy for people to introduce you
Friends who make intros are doing you a favor.
Write the intro email so they can just copy and paste.
Here’s the email we asked friends to send investors:
I was just reminded that for our Series A, we sent a questionnaire to the investors we were considering to understand if we have alignment.
Then the investor needed to write a doc or a presentation explaining their answers and thinking.
In order to build conviction, we rely on founders to tell us a compelling story, almost always in the form of slides. We’ve funded companies almost entirely because of the quality of their seed decks. Poor deck? We’ll likely pass on the opportunity.