When investors ask early stage start ups for 5 year projections it shows me that they a) don’t understand start-ups b) aren’t interested in investing and that company and looking for reasons to say no instead of just being honest
Don’t take anyone’s word for anything - always do your own research and study, fact check, double fact check, read opposing views, fact check - form your own opinion based on your own study
I have investors on my cap table who made big promises when they cut the check but wouldn’t respond to emails when the company was facing serious challenges. Now they want to email me congratulations for raising $1.3M on my own with not even a retweet from them...
🤷🏾♀️ Where there is a will there is a way. Higher ticket price & all. There are some pretty high ticket prices in the ecosystem. But @BlockchainVoice & @SatoshiRoundtbl immediately come to mind as proactively inclusive events w leadership dedicated to diversity of thought & bkgrnd