You might be surprised on that. I got many of the same style of rejections you did. I got very few clear-cut "No"s and lots of "We like what you're doing and it

You might be surprised on that. I got many of the same style of rejections you did. I got very few clear-cut "No"s and lots of "We like what you're doing and it makes sense, but we need a bit more time." Which is the most frustrating form of "No", as I suspect you know. My guess as to what made us different than Airbnb circa 2008--maybe some of these apply to you, too: 1) Founder with previous exit/acquisition in the tech space 2) Product had some traction (paying customers, including a F500 company) 3) Product was in a domain that most VC's/angels didn't have experience with (in my case, software designed for marketing teams) -- some were nice enough to outright reject us based on the fact that they had never been in marketing; the people who had previously been in marketing almost immediately saw the need and said "YES" right away; many of them saw that we had traction but felt like they needed to understand the market better to see what we were seeing, so to speak.