Comments on: Mike Maples Jr.: Inflection Points and Startup Success https://primates.life/mike-maples-jr-inflection-points-and-startup-success/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: admin https://primates.life/mike-maples-jr-inflection-points-and-startup-success/#comment-22 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:30:47 +0000 https://primates.life/mike-maples-jr-inflection-points-and-startup-success/#comment-22 VC pitch deck:
; slide number one is what do we do (as if VC knows nothing)
; Slide number two is what do I know about the future that’s not obvious?
; Slide number three is anything impressive that’s happened so far objectively? Customers, patents, letters of intent, just some proof that people in the world care about this thing and that they’re joining the movement and signing up.

+If a VC doesn’t believe your insight, they’re not gonna invest. There’s no way to overcome their objections. They’re not gonna invest no matter what until it’s proven.
What you wanna find is the subset of people in this world who believe what you believe. Only their objections matter. That’s true of customers, it’s true of investors, true of early employees.
Don’t waste any urges of energy on anybody else and their objections.

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