The post was asking how to find investors, not how you would do it in some ideal world.
If you don't want to be disappointed by the wizard, don't look behind the curtain.
If you don't want to be disappointed by the wizard, don't look behind the curtain.
VCs want you to believe this narrative because it means you start from a much weaker negotiating position and it restricts deal flow to entrenched firms.
I would imagine something like that would happen if some other prestigious firm invested previously and it shows up on crunchbase
We do have a bit of previous so it's possible people know about us from things we've done before (though to be clear it's nothing super crazy). And while we don't spend much time with VCs, if we can possibly help it, we do spend a bunch of time with other founders, many of whom are VC funded.