>It's like either you have a great deck and thousand emails or nothing.
Pretty much. If you can't make the deck yourself, hire a third party to mock one up for you after you've put the content together; let them do the spacing, font, background, design work. Then the emails are on you; set a timer for follow-ups, make a spreadsheet regarding appointments.
You're still a builder, but you're gonna be building human connections for a bit. If you reframe things in that way, it's less jarring.
An interesting exercise would be for just one fund to not care about deck spacing, font and background ... or whether they have a CEO ... or if founders are ex-FB ...
A fund that just backs raw R&D ... with no referrals or exit history ... only evals the tech on merit
The few pure R&D funds that do that, to my knowledge, are restricted to university spin-outs right now
As things stand today -- the individuals (I know) most capabable of building awesome engineering are the least likely to get through the current VC obstacle courses -- who are all looking for the same needle in the same haystack
Pretty much. If you can't make the deck yourself, hire a third party to mock one up for you after you've put the content together; let them do the spacing, font, background, design work. Then the emails are on you; set a timer for follow-ups, make a spreadsheet regarding appointments.
You're still a builder, but you're gonna be building human connections for a bit. If you reframe things in that way, it's less jarring.