Startup Experts Share Their Investor Horror Stories
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For this latest episode of Office Hours, the Group Partners are sharing stories from their worst investor meetings. We’ll outline some of the weird plays we’ve seen investors try to pull — but we’ll also confess times that we, as founders, bungled meetings we could’ve nailed. We’ll discuss what differentiates a truly great investor, and shed a bit of light on something we rarely talk about publicly: the YC Investor Database. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/OfficeHours-apply Work at a startup: https://yc.link/OfficeHours-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:37 - Keeping Founders Waiting 02:23 - Status Games 05:16 - Advice For YC Founders 06:37 - Investors Leverage Before and After YC 07:46 - Have A Game Plan 11:31 - Who Is A Good Investor? 13:53 - Investor Updates 14:34 - Investor Known For Testing Founders 16:09 - Investor Meeting Is A Two-Way Street 16:44 - Who Is The CEO? 18:51 - Awkward Question Crossing Personal Line 20:58 - Worst Investor Meeting: Why You Are Doing A Company Anymore 22:36 - Being Professional 23:53 - Being Smart vs Adjusting Pitch Based On Investor Feedback 25:27 - Outro
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