> When considering any startup, you should always ask to meet the [investors]. If they don’t let you meet or speak candidly with these individuals, then run as

> When considering any startup, you should always ask to meet the [investors]. If they don’t let you meet or speak candidly with these individuals, then run as far away as possible. This seems a bit odd to me... Maybe it could work on a place like San Francisco where a lot of VC companies are located. I guess you can just meet them during lunch or for coffee. But how would you manage that on a european startup where a lot of investors come from different countries with different timezones? Are you saying that every potencial hire should schedule a skype meeting with each investor? Also, what about crowd-funded companies? Do you still contact every investor, even though some of them might just have chipped in $100 bucks because they saw a video pitch?