Key insights

• ⚙️ Investors often have limited knowledge about the startup's unique aspects
• 🤔 Investors may not always have deep insights and can change their minds for various reasons
• 🔍 Founders should focus on addressing fundamental issues rather than minor concerns
• 📊 Pitching to multiple investors helps identify consistent rejections
• 📈 Investors evaluate founders based on pattern matching, stack ranking, and communication
• 📈 Focus on making progress and keep sending updates to investors
• 💡 Rejections from investors should not be internalized or absorbed into the company's mindset
• 🌟 Believe in your business and stay confident during fundraising

Q&A

• What should founders focus on after facing rejection from investors?

  Founders should focus on making progress, sending updates to investors, and maintaining belief in their business. Progress speaks louder than words, and staying confident during fundraising is crucial.

• How do investors evaluate founders, and what can lead to rejection?

  Investors evaluate founders based on pattern matching, stack ranking, and communication. Rejection can be due to lack of fit with previous successes or unclear communication. However, founders' growth and development can change the perception of investors over time.

• Should founders consider consistent rejections from investors?

  While founders shouldn't internalize every rejection, consistent rejections from multiple investors may be worth considering. Pitching to multiple investors helps identify consistent rejections, and key reasons for consideration include the capability to lead a large organization and the potential for personal growth.

• What is the expectation of investors from founders post-feedback?

  Investors expect founders to focus on addressing fundamental issues rather than minor concerns and to provide real user insights and anecdotes to inform investors about their market.

• How should founders perceive investors' rejections?

  Founders should not take investors' rejections to heart and should not believe all the reasons given for rejection. Investors often have limited knowledge about the startup's unique aspects, and their opinions may not always have solid justification.

• 00:00 Investors' rejection can shake founders' confidence, but they shouldn't believe the why. Founders often overestimate investors' expertise and take rejections to heart. Investors usually have limited knowledge about the startup's unique aspects.
• 02:48 Investors may not always have deep insights and can change their minds for various reasons, often without solid justification. Their opinions are not always up for debate.
• 05:10 Investors expect founders to act on their feedback, and founders should focus on addressing fundamental issues rather than minor concerns. Founders should be able to provide real user insights and anecdotes to inform investors about their market.
• 07:43 Investors' rejections should not be taken at face value, but consistent reasons may be worth considering. Pitching to multiple investors helps identify consistent rejections. Key reasons for consideration include the capability to lead a large organization and the potential for personal growth.
• 10:25 Investors evaluate founders based on pattern matching, stack ranking, and communication. Rejection can be due to lack of fit with previous successes or unclear communication. Founders' growth and development can change the perception of investors over time.
• 12:39 Investors can change their mind, so focus on making progress and keep sending updates. Progress speaks louder than words. Keep believing in your business and stay confident during fundraising.