And this actually almost makes me dismiss her outright. Everybody raising money has heard those.
I have personally heard: "Not enthusiastic enough/Too enthusiastic" (Irony: two different people sitting at the same presentation) "Too little/too much experience" "Not enough/too many generalists." It goes on and on ...
You learn to ignore the excuse and move on--the excuse is irrelevant.
"No" is "no". Move on.
"Maybe" is "no". Move on.
"Yes" is no until you cash the check and it clears.
> You learn to ignore the excuse and move on (...)
That's actually a great attitude in almost everything in life: recognize that some things are best modeled as a random variable, and if you fail there might not be a causal explanation and you just have to keep trying.
The downside is that you might be given valuable information (feedback) and you might dismiss it as noise.
That’s not the point. Or maybe it’s exactly the point.
The point is that doing the equivalent of blind auditions might solve it for everyone. It is similar enough to the blind auditions example anyway to make the “it is no way similar” argument clearly wrong.
I have personally heard: "Not enthusiastic enough/Too enthusiastic" (Irony: two different people sitting at the same presentation) "Too little/too much experience" "Not enough/too many generalists." It goes on and on ...
You learn to ignore the excuse and move on--the excuse is irrelevant.
"No" is "no". Move on.
"Maybe" is "no". Move on.
"Yes" is no until you cash the check and it clears.