Analyzing pitches to find what gets VCs interested in a meeting
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#2Love it - there's a startup in analyzing startup chances.
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#3Beware of survivorship bias.
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#4Interesting. Investors are interested in making money on their money.
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#5I am not sure what value this post is besides a sales pitch for the poster. Don't mean to be overly critical, but really the number one factor is always customers. Do you have any? Also, How do you get more (cost of acquiring customers)? Market size? I suppose that's in the "underlying economics" section, but that's such a common question it should be addressed. VCs are looking for 100x return. Can you meet in person (or Zoom these days) and present yourself well? etc...
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#6Love it - there's a startup in analyzing startup chances.
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
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#7I thought VCs were interested in companies with superstar teams with a killer idea, an established and lucrative monetization mechanism, an established defendable innovative product, in a global market with hockey stock growth and for some reason still willing to sign ridiculously unfavorable investment terms with no downside or risk for the VC at a very low price, but at a very high price to the next round of investors to drive up ponzi scheme valuations. Oh and a CEO/founder who at first they love but later can be shoved out by the board. Or have I been watching too much Silicon Valley?
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#8What are the demographics of the VCs whose responses are summarized here? Were they from a wide array of cultures and histories? Were they primarily rich white men?
Ethics in AI would ask us to consider the unconscious bias introduced into the algorithm's outcomes. The same interest applies to human-generated outcomes. Either way, the input is a group of humans making subjective decisions, and since unconscious bias survives summarization, it should be accounted for.
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#9Analyzing common sense seems to be getting more popular.
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#10I thought VCs were interested in companies with superstar teams with a killer idea, an established and lucrative monetization mechanism, an established defendable innovative product, in a global market with hockey stock growth and for some reason still willing to sign ridiculously unfavorable investment terms with no downside or risk for the VC at a very low price, but at a very high price to the next round of invest…
> Or have I been watching too much Silicon Valley?
Too much, or not enough.