Jason Yeh

1) Great founders with great fundraising skills 2) Bad founders with great fundraising skills 3) Great founders with bad fundraising skills 1's and 2's get funded. 3's do not, and it hurts to see. That's the problem i'm trying to solve.

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100 investors on your target list. minimum. most founders flinch at that number they shouldn't... they should be scared it's not enough early-stage is a brutal funnel. most will say no. many won't respond. the ones who do will take longer than you think. you need that volume just to close one deal a list of 20 isn't selective. it's naive.

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most founders waste months pitching VCs who were never going to say yes... because their company was never venture-backable to begin with understanding how VCs make money isn't optional. and if your company doesn't fit that math right now... no pitch, no deck, no warm intro fixes it. that's a hard thing to hear. but finding out in month one beats finding out in month nine.

see, anyone can do it. just throw in an extra bill, larry. come on...

@squigglydonut me too. but it doesn't matter how much of a conviction based investor they are...they're still human and are impacted by that dynamic

@jayyeh An investor who only invests if others are investing. Gives me “the ick”

spreading investor meetings over months is killing your raise compress them into a tight window. timelines force prioritization. and when investors see others moving on that same deadline, waiting stops feeling safe. that's the pressure system you need to build.

@BuxtonMatthew this is a common piece of advice that i don't love. a few reasons including i don't trust a founder to be able to accurately "tier" investors. hard to say who's going to be the best for you. also that dissipates some of the pressure of calendar density.

@jayyeh Do you advise to work up from lower tier to higher tier to increase fomo and adjust messaging or target leads first?

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@paulnnaluo no problem man. sending good luck your way!

@jayyeh This is good. Thanks for sharing.

investors are poker players if you let them wait for the next card, they will "a bit early" "come back with more traction" "check back next quarter" all the same thing: not enough pressure to decide that's not a signal to go build more. it's a signal to run a tighter process.

@paulnnaluo calendar density admnt.com/blog/calendar-…

@jayyeh How do you run a tighter process

@dcanerate the most consistent thing between all the cases is you just didn't excite them enough

@jayyeh hm. if you are "a bit early" - you are not revolutionary enough. if you "need more traction" - either your idea is not working (and wont work with funding) or you don't need fundraise. wdyt about this?

@theantonchain structure and process are trump cards!

@jayyeh High stakes poker player to be exacts, how do founders, consistently tip the odds in their favour? The answer is structure!

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investors aren't just asking "what are your metrics". they're asking: can this team close the gap between where they are and where they need to be that comes down to three things: → trust & reputation → story → process traction helps. it doesn't replace any of them.

@YasminThinks will be great to have you!

@jayyeh Have registered :)

@jayyeh your event date on the link you shared has passed

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before worrying about pitching better, ask: "am i actually a good deal for this specific investor?" most fundraising problems aren't execution problems. they're mismatch problems a VC, an angel, a family office — completely different return math. what's exciting to one is a pass for another