Fundraising

founding a startup means committing 5+ years of your life to something especially when you raise vc money here are 3 things to know before going after vc funding:

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.

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."