When you get advice from other founders, it's heavily based on their personal experience. The downside of that is if they really struggle to fundraise or it with fundraising personally, all their advice is going to be them basically telling you don't do what I did. It took years of me working at YC to sort of break out of that trap and not be so autobiographical in the things that I'm telling people.
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel on common pitfalls in the advice from different types of investors and why you, the founder, are ultimately responsible for the success of your company.
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