The Three Words No Early-Stage VC Wants To Hear
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3 min readOct 31, 2019
I was pitching a prominent early-stage venture capitalist and preparing to hit the climax of my presentation. I’d spent the prior 10 minutes artfully describing the problem my startup was solving, demonstrating demand, showing traction… all of it building toward the data point I was most proud of. I clicked to my next slide to reveal an “upwards-and-to-the-right” graph and explained: “By continuing on our…
