Joel's going to the Valley to pitch SO while Jeff's off in New Zealand at Webstock/on vacation. Do VCs care if only half of the founding team is there? What if one of them is 1/3 of the development team and the primary technical driving force?
No VC would invest based on one meeting. Nor would they expect the guy who is building the site to schlep along on every pitch meeting -- Jeff has better things to do!.
Presumably if we found some interested parties, they would want to meet the key team members, in a second or third meeting.
No, in fact I think it's expected that only one of founders be present for initial meetings. If I were a VC I'd wonder why they were all wasting their time when it could be handled by one person.
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Joel's going to the Valley to pitch SO while Jeff's off in New Zealand at Webstock/on vacation. Do VCs care if only half of the founding team is there? What if one of them is 1/3 of the development team and the primary technical driving force?
No VC would invest based on one meeting. Nor would they expect the guy who is building the site to schlep along on every pitch meeting -- Jeff has better things to do!.
Presumably if we found some interested parties, they would want to meet the key team members, in a second or third meeting.
No, in fact I think it's expected that only one of founders be present for initial meetings. If I were a VC I'd wonder why they were all wasting their time when it could be handled by one person.