Seed round tips:
Befriend funded founders
Have compelling vision to be $1B+
Record pitch and listen to your audio
Get hot intros
Pitch many firms at once
Start + end with BIG vision
Aim for multiple term sheets
Diligence VC; esp. w/ founders not on references
Other tips? 
Here are a couple more: Create an amazing product Understand your users really well Become ramen profitable Spend more time talking to users than investors
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Number 1 and 2, and I would imagine the rest will fall in place.
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For a second I was wondering if this was a poem.
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I love ramen
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Be committed to a story you believe in and realize the process is finding investors that think like you not modifying your story to adjust to investor rejection
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Yes! Best time to raise: when you don’t need to.
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Not in this sequence though right ?
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Where does the element of timing come in?
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Ideal timing: You don’t need to raise. Accelerating organic growth. VCs are aggressively inbounding. But... many companies get funded on combo of idea + market + team. Hence, vision for a BIG win really matters. VC follows power laws. See
@skupor’s book.
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There is one thing I have found conflicting while talking to investors: Advice: Find a niche and delivery solid value. The problem is it is often construed as "too small of market" and hence of no interest to VCs. Any suggestion?
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This is where story telling and vision really matters, if you want VC. Have a plan for how you’ll go from serving a niche today to being a market leader in a sufficiently large market. Or, consider just staying focused on your niche and bypassing VC.
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