How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

Post by op03 » Fri, May 28, 2021, 7:48 AM UTC

doggodaddo78 wrote: post #145

a_bonobo wrote: post #78

>It’s a VC’s job to keep the door open. Many were ‘blown away’, then passed before the second meeting. This is normal. I'm sometimes working with US-Americans and not being US-American myself, I feel like this is also a US-cultural thing? In important meetings with US stakeholders I struggle to read the room because everything is always 'awesome' and 'amazing', there's rarely upfront criticism. Honest feedback has to…

Yep. I'm from the US grew up in the Valley but lived in the UK for a startup for a short while. It's both a byproduct of career hierarchal corporate obedience and social success façade (see also: modern campus culture of Ivy Leagues and Pac12s). It's absolutely awful for mental health or getting things done. More practically, it's a problem when people try so hard to be liked that they throw away respect by being too…

Post by thaumasiotes » Fri, May 28, 2021, 7:57 AM UTC

shkkmo wrote: post #51

thaumasiotes wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> blatant misogyny (trying to exchange money for sex and blackballing her from deals if she refuses or talks about it). Those are things that men mostly do not have to deal with when raising money. True that that's something men mostly don't have to deal with when raising money, but it's also something that makes it easier , not harder, for women to raise money compared to men. It's also a weird thing to describe as…

I find this a very repugnant thing to say. In what way is facing sexual extortion an advantage?

Post by robertlagrant » Fri, May 28, 2021, 7:59 AM UTC

op03 wrote: post #161

doggodaddo78 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. I'm from the US grew up in the Valley but lived in the UK for a startup for a short while. It's both a byproduct of career hierarchal corporate obedience and social success façade (see also: modern campus culture of Ivy Leagues and Pac12s). It's absolutely awful for mental health or getting things done. More practically, it's a problem when people try so hard to be liked that they throw away respect by being too…

Very nice very nice as borat would say but the big piece missing in the rant is mindless ambition. Thats what keeps the lights on when shit hits the fan. Whether people are superficial corporate robots or without real friends or follow all kinds of meaningless ritual etc doesnt matter if they are driven. Why? Because thats who you end up relying on when competing against other people who are mindlessly driven. How ar…

Post by belorn » Fri, May 28, 2021, 8:04 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #40

This article got a lot of user flags. That's bad—it's obviously a substantive article, squarely on topic for HN and not sensational, ideological, or predictable. Even a quick skim is enough to see that it doesn't break down along any of the obvious faultlines for this general topic. That not only means it shouldn't have been flagged, it makes it HN gold. If you've been wielding the flag club that indiscriminately...p…

Post by robertlagrant » Fri, May 28, 2021, 8:08 AM UTC

devsegal wrote: post #94

grammarnazzzi wrote: post #88

> I heavily prioritized male investors. Every time a female investor converted, I asked them to help me find male investors. Does the above statement seem bigoted?

> I heavily prioritized female investors. Every time a (male) investor converted, I asked them to help me find female investors. This is the text I'm seeing on my chrome /mobile android browser, would be funny if we were being shown different versions, but it seems as if you might have made a mistake there.