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“You would ask every investor to start, what made you excited to take this meeting? And I just think it is the best lesson for entrepreneurs who think either They think they're great salespeople, or they're trying to figure out how to sell, and they haven't rea…”

“Show your deck to the investors that you care about or want to work with the least and bounce it off of them before you take it to the ones that you really, really want.”

“Because just like entrepreneurs, Investors are competitive. They like being atop the leaderboard. And so if you can gamify and create a leaderboard on your monthly or quarterly investor update, they are going to be motivated to add value because they want t…”

“For anyone of us coaching someone, I would say, here's what I believe, here's why, here's what I'm gonna do to validate it, and here's what would change my mind, if, and, you know, I'll keep you abreast, so now, again, someone goes, oh, this person has a point…”

“So I actually would be more protective of my idea when talking to investors because I would say they have more layered agendas than someone you just tell about on Twitter who's an individual who's interested in entrepreneurship.”

“And investors also, in my experience, want founders who are willing to stand up for themselves and to push back because it's a microcosm of their experience as a CEO long-term.”

“And so what I've actually come up with is this idea of what I call approachable expertise. And it's a tone that you want to deliver where it's like, Hey, I know what I'm talking about, but Alex, like if you have pushback, let's have the conversation. Let's, le…”

“When we like somebody, when we believe in them, when we connect to them, we look for green flags. We look for reasons to say yes. That's just human nature.”

“And if you get an investor thinking through the lens of what if I'm right, that's how you get them thinking about, oh, this is the fund returner. This is the outlier inside of the fund, because now they're just thinking about the biggest upside case instead of…”

“If you're heads down building and actually executing the business and growing it, those investors will be that much hungrier to speak to you in the future than if you took a 30 minute call with them now.”

“They actually wouldn't want me to just blindly follow their point of view. They want to be heard. They want to know that their point of view matters, that I'm hearing it, but more than anything, they want to make sure that I'm following my gut. I'm making the …”

“Investors are very good at selling. So you should be careful. There's very few questions you can ask an investor that you're going to get to the core truth. Compared to talking to their references and certainly talking to back channel references are very, very…”

“More important than raising capital or the valuation you can raise at are the expectations of the investors you're raising from and how aligned they are with your expectations.”

“He's in prison, but not for price gouging. He was convicted of defrauding investors.”

“Being macro correct about an industry Is more important than being micro correct, especially as an investor, but also as an entrepreneur.”

“At the end of the day, when you are raising a pre-seed round, I'm going to say this over and over, but an investor is investing in you more than they are investing in a business. Because the odds that the business you are pitching right now Kind of the pre-see…”