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I’ll see myself out. Lol
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There are other routes, which usually involve sucking it up, going and working at Wall St or SV for a couple years till you know the "right people" and they know/trust you. After that happens the type of conversations change drastically.
Equity financing is a bad measuring stick for this. But really, when you're competing with, "Buy gold because it's shiny!" - that would have earned investors 26.6 percentage points liquid return YTD - can you really fault people for being skeptical of complex ideas as a class of investments?
My company is trying to raise capital now, and that is the exact problem we're running into.
There's a reason for the "janitor as a service" unoriginal ideas--because they're easy to understand, so more likely to be funded. Those kinds of investors are looking for the buzzwords, too, "as a service," "cloud," "social," "AI" that cut off ideas that aren't strictly consumer-facing and infinitely scalable. If you have a modest idea that requires a modest amount of money and targets a modest group of people, you're just not going to hear back from investors. This causes people to have to wrap their idea in buzzwords or lobotomize it into something that allows them to achieve their true goal in a sideways manner.