Disclosure
Barr: Most founders should bootstrap or raise from angels rather than VCs
“And I'm a VC and I don't recommend a lot of people go VC. I do recommend people go bootstrap, or if you're not going to bootstrap and you want a little bit of money, go angel.”
Opinion
Barr: Founder seed evaluation is a science, not power-law guesswork
“I don't think that, I think you can actually understand companies at a seed level and founders at a seed trait level and understand, do they have the communication? Do they have listening? Do you have the, all these things that are going to make them successfu…”
Opinion
Barr: The first 60 seconds of a video call predict founder competence
“There's a ton of things that you can tell in the first 60 seconds of a call about somebody, and it's very, very predictive. It's not a guessing game.”
Insight
Jeremy Barr: Burnout is not driven by time and energy input
“Burnout is not a function of time and energy like a lot of people think.”
Opinion
Jeremy Barr: Work-life balance is a nine-to-five mindset
“Work-life balance is a nine-to-five mindset, and I don't say that in a bad way, I just say it's a context way.”
Insight
Barr: Media buying can scale revenue to $50M without product repeatability
“It's crazy how, if you get really good at media buying and sales pages, you can actually get over fifty million and you're in the top six percent of companies and you still don't have repeatability or investability.”
Insight
Barr: High-performing founders execute 5-8 weekly tasks versus one for beginners
“The high performers get it done by next week. And they get like five or eight things done. I can usually give them a lot more actions. Versus a more beginner person or somebody who is not as absorbent will take three or four weeks to get one thing done.”
Insight
Barr: Founder Coaching Must Fit Within a 60-to-90-Day Investability Timeline
“Because at the end of the day, you still don't want, even if you're trying to grow somebody, For them to have 300 things that are gonna take them a year for you to teach them through when you need them. You know, productive or investable in 60 days or 90 days.”
Insight
Jeremy Barr: Founders Should Expect a 99% Rejection Rate and Need Volume
“So, you know, 99% of people are ignoring ads in the world, which kind of transposes to when you're approaching interview investors and any sort of new thing in general is that you're supposed to have like a 99% failure rate, and so this concept of volume, goin…”
Insight
Jeremy Barr: Listening Is the Top Trait for Founder Investability
“Listening is probably the number one trait I'm always looking for because it applies to Pretty much everything for you to become like a gravity ball, which is my investable thesis. Is that gravity ball, your ability to communicate to and relate to a wide varie…”
Insight
Barr: Conversation success relies on duration and follow-up desire
“You, the grading metric generalized is one conversation duration. Two, conversation follow up. If they want to talk to you a second time, that's an extremely good sign. So if you had a first meeting and they want a second meeting, great. So those are the two g…”
Insight
Barr: Taking venture capital too early puts startups on an aggressive funding timer
“The problem is in application, when you're given money too early before you maybe got your product market fit or other key customer listening metrics you are then trying to accelerate, because once you give the money, it's a timer. You have to get a return on …”
Insight
Barr: Founders Should Seek Emotional Extremes, Not Average Feelings, During Discovery
“Feel where you feel really, really strong emotions and really, really negative emotions. And don't really go towards the things that are just like, ah, I feel average about it. You want to have really, really strong emotions for things that are really, really …”
Insight
Jeremy Barr: Founder Resilience Requires a Quantified 'Must-Have Why'
“Your resilience comes from your, what I would say your, is your quantified must have why I must have this in life. And if you don't have a thing that you must have in life, you're not going to have that resilience to deal with all that you have to deal with.”
Assertion Supported
Barr: 6% Monthly Growth Over 7-Year IPO Timeline Yields $133 Million
“So if you take a company at one million dollars and you have them grow six percent month over month for the seven year median to IPO time, you get one hundred thirty three million dollars.”
