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This seems arrogant. Your two previous posts offer no detail, basically just “Who’s Raising?” as if everyone is going to beat a path to your door. Your medium p

This seems arrogant. Your two previous posts offer no detail, basically just “Who’s Raising?” as if everyone is going to beat a path to your door. Your medium post talks about raising $1.5M, which is fundamentally not impressive at all, and I don’t mean that pejoratively or dismissively. The company where I was employee #5 and helped build from Day 1 recently raised 100x that much and I wouldn’t in my wildest dreams talk about that unprompted or think anyone cares what I think about fundraising in the least. Your conclusion is essentially sour grapes. “People aren’t taking my money so there must be a lot of money because no one is interested,” which ignores other reasons they’re not interested. The reason I’m not interested: Taking an honest read of your linked posts and this one I see no compelling reason to even DM you should I be fundraising because you don’t seem to bring anything compelling or useful to the table except a small check. Hope this doesn’t come across badly, just trying to be candid. You come across as super arrogant to me despite having essentially no successes, or at least you’re so hand-wavey and abstract that they don’t come across. At this seeming early stage of your “VC Journey” or whatever it’s likely that the shoe is on the other foot and you should be selling yourself hard rather than the other way around.

atian 4y ago
He/she lives in Australia. As a one-time visitor, seems they are not exposed to the air that you and I share and may explain their experiences with them putting capital where there is little (comparatively) industry.
pickitupsnake 4y ago
Maybe a little arrogant but as someone looking for a 'small check' to rundown an idea, that doesn't bother me.
cheerioty 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear it was perceived this way, this was obviously not my intention. I've updated my profile with a little bit more background on me. I'm a bit worried though, seeing your comment here, that actually talking more about my background and, what I consider my personal achievements, will come off as even more arrogant again.
- solarmist 4y ago
  No, it's the opposite. You seem to be falling into the money version of the "if I build it, they will come" fallacy. That's where I perceive the arrogance and a touch of "big fish in a small pond." To me, you haven't done anything overtly arrogant. The fact given two people, most of the time they will not be a good match, often for mundane reasons, so you need to give people reasons to positively or negatively filter against you. Even weak filters like "I have experience in x or y domains and I like z domain, but I'm willing to talk to anyone" would improve your hit rates. From the perspective of a founder (who's still pre-revenue, pre-funding), I spend a LOT of time filtering who to talk to just because I don't have the time to talk to _anyone_ who might be interested.
Shindi 4y ago
> ... almost 7 years after Atlassian acquired my previous startup ... Yeah, OP you're a second time founder and that helps a ton. You don't acknowledge that at all in your medium post.

atian 4y ago

He/she lives in Australia. As a one-time visitor, seems they are not exposed to the air that you and I share and may explain their experiences with them putting capital where there is little (comparatively) industry.

pickitupsnake 4y ago

Maybe a little arrogant but as someone looking for a 'small check' to rundown an idea, that doesn't bother me.

cheerioty 4y ago

I'm sorry to hear it was perceived this way, this was obviously not my intention. I've updated my profile with a little bit more background on me. I'm a bit worried though, seeing your comment here, that actually talking more about my background and, what I consider my personal achievements, will come off as even more arrogant again.

solarmist 4y ago
No, it's the opposite. You seem to be falling into the money version of the "if I build it, they will come" fallacy. That's where I perceive the arrogance and a touch of "big fish in a small pond." To me, you haven't done anything overtly arrogant. The fact given two people, most of the time they will not be a good match, often for mundane reasons, so you need to give people reasons to positively or negatively filter against you. Even weak filters like "I have experience in x or y domains and I like z domain, but I'm willing to talk to anyone" would improve your hit rates. From the perspective of a founder (who's still pre-revenue, pre-funding), I spend a LOT of time filtering who to talk to just because I don't have the time to talk to _anyone_ who might be interested.

Shindi 4y ago

> ... almost 7 years after Atlassian acquired my previous startup ... Yeah, OP you're a second time founder and that helps a ton. You don't acknowledge that at all in your medium post.