Pre Seed Founders
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
Innovators & Investors 
the Neon Show 
A Product Market Fit Show
4 statements about Pre Seed Founders, every show
Jain: Pre-Seed Investors Must Back Founders Committed to 10-Plus Years
“In most cases, it's 10 plus years, right? And I think founders have to really, you have to be, you have to believe that the founders want this to be their last job, right? If this is working well, this, they're just going to keep, keep going with this versus l…”
Jain: When two pre-seed founders fundraise, business operations effectively halt
“Like, if you think about it, there's two founders raising a pre-seed, and they're both fundraising, or meeting investors, Nobody's writing code. Nobody's selling to customers, right? The business is essentially shut down for the purpose of fundraising.”
Novick: Pre-seed founders waste time pitching Series A and Series B VCs
“One of the biggest mistakes I see founders do is they're very early, I'd say, precinct and seed, and then they go in and talk to a series A, series B VC. And these guys end up sucking a lot of time for them because they want to know and learn about the busines…”
Pre-seed founders should seek advice from Seed founders, not Series D veterans
“When you're pre-seed, just spending time with seed or series A founder to understand how they build their motions. And I will spend more time with them and less time with, I don't know, series D advisors, outstanding advisors who don't really know this.”