An investor meeting is completely different from a customer conversation. Investors want to hear that you're an integral part of the future, not just how gigantic your company will be. Don't jump immediately into this grand vision of when there are $300 billion companies with offices all over the world. Start small and tell them about what you're doing now; then if they nod along, build on it.
Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.
He’s on Twitter @harris.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.
Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
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Topics
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Seed fundraising process
3:32 - Emailing investors
9:32 - Parallelized fundraising process
12:17 - Meeting with investors
14:17 - Overcapitalization
17:07 - Communicating your plan to investors
19:02 - Evaluating investors
22:57 - Fundraising process for a Series A company
27:02 - Meeting Series A investors
28:57 - Post-Demo Day psychology