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TL;DR:🦵Kicking the can is when a VC tells you: “we would love to invest, but we want to see you a bit more developed first”😡It’s the most frustrating when what they’re telling you they want to see, is the exact reason you’re raising today (chicken-and-egg scenario) 🩺You need to diagnose the issue. Is it Portfolio Fit? Is it Valuation? Or is it something you did or didn’t do?✅Once properly diagnosed, you can take action to get past the issue and/or make sure it doesn’t happen next time! (you’ve gotta actually read to find out what to do, LOL!)Here’s the setup…VC: “We need to see more progress (on the thing you’re actually raising for) - but then we might invest!”This is a situation that comes up for many founders raising capital, in particular those founders who are raising their first VC money: “We like you, but we want to see you prove out (your next milestone) before we would be comfortable investing.”If you’ve never heard these words or some version of them, then consider yourself l...
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