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>It's like either you have a great deck and thousand emails or nothing. Pretty much. If you can't make the deck yourself, hire a third party to mock one up for
by ABCLAW 5y ago
>It's like either you have a great deck and thousand emails or nothing.
Pretty much. If you can't make the deck yourself, hire a third party to mock one up for you after you've put the content together; let them do the spacing, font, background, design work. Then the emails are on you; set a timer for follow-ups, make a spreadsheet regarding appointments.
You're still a builder, but you're gonna be building human connections for a bit. If you reframe things in that way, it's less jarring.
- brainless 5y agoYou mean just like the CEO candidate has to find a freelance to get the tech done if they can't find a technical co-founder. Valid point.
- throwaway1556 5y agoAn interesting exercise would be for just one fund to not care about deck spacing, font and background ... or whether they have a CEO ... or if founders are ex-FB ... A fund that just backs raw R&D ... with no referrals or exit history ... only evals the tech on merit The few pure R&D funds that do that, to my knowledge, are restricted to university spin-outs right now As things stand today -- the individuals (I know) most capabable of building awesome engineering are the least likely to get through the current VC obstacle courses -- who are all looking for the same needle in the same haystack
- yaseer 5y ago>A fund that just backs raw R&D ... with no referrals or exit history ... only evals the tech on merit Define 'merit'. From the perspective of an investor, merit is commercial potential. Small traction in a large market shows commercial potential. 'Raw R&D' without commercial potential is definitely the domain of universities, not VCs.