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i did a round of feedback with some fellow founders and they were way, way more difficult than the VCs were.

Interesting! That's exactly the kind of insight I was hoping for.

Just checked out your profile, you probably had access to other experienced founders who'd been through similar fundraising experiences. Were they more difficult because of that direct experience, or just naturally more critical in their review style?

I'm thinking most early founders don't have that kind of network though, maybe that's why they're getting much softer feedback.

Did you find the VC questions predictable after getting grilled by fellow founders, or were there still surprises?

I think the questions were 90-95% predictable/seen before from Founder, which is fair because most VCs want to understand the basics first. We must have met with 100-200 VCs when we actually did the raise, so after the first 50 or so, I stopped getting new questions

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