Seed Investor
- Who they are
- A partner at an early-stage fund who sees hundreds of cold founders a month and gives most of them under a minute.
- Decides
- First meeting
- Wins them
- What the company does and for whom, clear at once.
- One concrete proof point early: users, revenue, growth, a named pilot, retention.
- Loses them
- Big category claims with nothing behind them.
- Backstory before the product.
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