Moore: Founders should take contained investor meetings when not actively fundraising
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Lightspeed partner Bucky Moore discusses how founders should evaluate lead investors during competitive, rapid-fire fundraising rounds.
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“Don't not take investor meetings because you're not raising. And the reason for that is because you can do it in a contained way that allows you to understand what these people are about and who they are and do you vibe with them or not? And I think the problem with these, like, shotgun processes where, you know, the founder's saying their head's down and they don't necessarily want to spend any time with investors until they're in that fundraising mode is it's just really hard to, at least for someone like me, arrive at that conclusion that I know I vibe with and trust with this person.”
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