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founder evaluation
...50 founders in the room representing 30 companies here. Most of them are first time founders. When we meet with these companies, we like to assess what they need help with, number one. Number two is almost, well, top three. How do I raise money? How
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...founder, it requires so much mental flexibility. And it's relatively easy to test even during or, like, to sense if you have spoken with enough people during a conversation.
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Or YC founders? Why have they been so successful compared to normal distributions? It's because they invest their time early in their careers and doing things that are challenging and they stress themselves. They challenge themselves through the hype
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...cofounder. And we know that you can get these absolutely magical pairs that can build and create things that neither neither of those individuals could have done alone. So, yeah, we would, we're very happy to to help you properly evaluate your your c
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...a or a few key numbers that our founder should know
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...have to crack the problem that they're tackling. And do you find, especially with entrepreneurs that are very early in their journey, that there's a piece of advice or a couple piece of advice that you're often giving them? I think it's both to be to
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...of founders here is, I think one of the things that we've seen a lot is cash flow management. It's like easy to run out of money. Yes. I mean, I think, keeping a focus on keeping the burn low, before they find product market fit, I think, is a is a k
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...love young founders, and there's never been a better time to be a young founder. So what we what we do is we find people, individuals, usually somewhere between the ages of 18 and, about 26. And the reason we don't ask about their ideas is that, hone
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I found that I'm being interested in their operational pains and not just on the technical side. So that's what attracted me to work with some VCs. I wanted to understand what was like on the other side. How are their investment decisions made? What
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there are so many founders who are incredibly bright, incredibly capable. They have great insights about the market, about an opportunity, and yet their startup does not work out. And we there's a a problem with selection bias that we, you know, we w
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...founders, not what they do. Then we spend time understanding what they do, and what their spaces and the deal dynamics. If all of that shakes out, the real core of what we do is the second phase, which is deeply personal conversation. The the frame I
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...have? And today, you still have insight when they go from lab or academia into entrepreneurship, do you get any insights on that? We don't have a ton of qualitative insights as to, you know, what they're expecting when they come into, to the venture
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...founders, interviewing potential hires, or others, you find it most interesting and useful? All of the above. The founder one is fascinating because you actually end up going down different lines and helping them depending on whether they answer the
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...that sometimes founders underestimate how hard it's gonna be to get the right people in the door and how much of that getting them in is about storytelling
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...good founders think like that. They think about how do I paint that vision, bring all these people along with me. And in the early days, when we were doing agent investing, we would have founders show up and stand up on the board and start diagrammin
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we would love for them to have a customer expert, somebody who's just, you know, brilliant vision for the product and the customer experience. And they're, you know, hammering their fist on the table saying the customer, the customer, the customer, m
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