You need to be building relationships with the people that could be beneficial to you from an early stage. AngelList can be a magical resources to validate your

You need to be building relationships with the people that could be beneficial to you from an early stage. AngelList can be a magical resources to validate your progress with investors and contacts. Keep it up to date on your progress, product updates and any traction. If you're in a startup hub or use Skype to setup meetings with useful people. Not to ask for a referral or to ask for anything at all but just to get feedback on your startup, which really is to get them to put you on their map of companies. From there they'll probably follow you on Twitter or AngelList and will be able to watch your progress until you have something to ask from them. When someone I don't really know asks for a referral to an investor I'll sometimes consider it but if it's someone I know well then I'll always refer them because I know how much they've achieved and thus how much they could achieve going on. Taking something from the idea stage to a working product to customers paying for it is an impressive achievement. Also: In my opinion if someone has to read FAQ's to understand why you're different or what you do then something isn't clicking. This could be because you're doing your pitching online. When you can explain something to someone in person it can be 10x more impactful. Of course this doesn't matter to users. I'm not sure that there's anyone I know that I would recommend you speak to other than a couple of possible competitors I know of.