A lot of the stories were obviously raw and unedited. Totally fine. Some of them were a little naughty, in an investor-friendly fashion.
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Some, though, were a poorly calibrated sort of naughty. Automating your performance at a boring job or class is a celebrated type of naughty
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Describing, let me make up an example, how one conducted insider trading when working at a broker dealer? That's not a great idea?
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There's at least 2 levels on which you're reading the application: what does this say and what does it say about a person who'd write this.
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Imposter syndrome, which I have a deep appreciation for, is a thing that runs wide and deep among entrepreneurs.
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You wouldn't think half of pitches would be improved by "Brag More; You've Earned It" but that appears to be true.
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I don't think entrepreneurs understand the crushing volume of pitches that pitchable people get. It's like Harvard and applications.
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It is objectively unfair and unreasonable to evaluate someone's life in five minutes or their company in two. But that is what world does.
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Given that you only have two minutes of someone's attention, you'd rigorously cut that to be only things which provide positive signal.
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A specific genre of thing that needs to be cut: product demos / prototypes. I guarantee you, yours is not an investable login form.
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("Rigorously cut the length of", I mean. Definitely, definitely ship a prototype if you can; gets you over the Can They Software? hurdle.)
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