Mostly interested in hearing from those who have succeeded multiple times. For those who have launched and produced profitable companies. How important was knowing the right people, how important was having money. How did you meet the right people and how did you get the money you needed.
(Anyone can say anything but please if all you’re gonna say is work hard and eat your green vegetables. It’s pointless.)
Speaking as someone who works with a lot of VC invested founders, the ones that don’t have prior deep experience and network in their domain of focus have extremely high failure rates relative to other startups, so much so that my advice to our investment team and investment committee is just to flatly (but nicely) reject them, usually with the comment like ‘come back when you reach xxxMRR’
no money can me surmounted. after all thats what VCs are for.