Partner at Homebrew, writer on seed dynamics from the investor side of the table.
Walk reframes seed as a multi-year, possibly multi-round phase of proving core value, not a single event, with implications for how founders should structure and sequence early capital.
A short, sharp diligence-reversal tactic: ask every prospective investor 'what's a risk you're more comfortable with than the average VC?' and use the answer to test fit and conviction.
A sitting VC interrogates his own industry's meritocracy narrative: standard fundraising advice assumes network access and pattern-matching benefits that underrepresented founders don't get, and he discusses what honest advice looks like instead.
A crowdsourced-and-curated list of 25 best-practice traits for early-stage VCs, cc'ing prominent investors who debated it in replies; a useful rubric for founders scoring prospective investors.