Raiev

Investors aren’t interested in ideas, aren’t interested in people, they don’t want to take risks — the person you described is not an investor. I can put my money in a bank — it’s the same thing. They don’t want to take risks because the times are unstable?

1) but was it any different in stable times? 2) I’ve looked at projects that got funding — almost any AI project with a dumb idea raises millions, but that’s not risk — that’s a safe and stable project. 3) for real investors, the emergence of a huge number of new technologies multiplied by global economic shifts is a great opportunity — new markets appear and old ones are being redistributed. It doesn’t get any better than this.

Yes, you're right — just put "AI" in the name and millions of dollars start flowing in. The main thing is hype. You go to investors, to grown-up rational people — and there's neither the first nor the second.

Alright, I understand you — you're evaluating not the project, but the person, because what matters to an investor is not even the project, but the partner. But what does your test have to do with evaluating a person? A machine assembled in 2010 in the central part of the US — is it good or bad? Should I have bought it? How will you understand from that test the level of intelligence, motivation, willpower, creativity of thinking, or depth of market understanding? It’s just a way to filter out those whose project is already generating income — especially those for whom this is not their first profitable project. This test shows nothing more.

Yes, you’re absolutely right. I’ve faced the same thing — there are no real investors out there, not in the sense of those who take risks and make their living from it. I registered on OpenVC and completed their form — the system gave me 27 out of 100 points. That’s how investors evaluate projects: not by studying the idea, but based on standard template parameters. This is just one example, but others work the same way — “how many people are on the team,” “what’s your education,” and so on.

They don’t care about pre-seed at all — only ready-made projects that already bring in money. I may not be an expert in investing, but honestly, why would I need an investor when everything already works and makes a profit?

What you said about unicorns is also true. I believe my project has huge potential — for now, it’s just my opinion, but I’ve already spent about €1200–1500 on the prototype and around 1000 hours on the mathematical model, presentations, videos, and website. I know some will laugh at that number — I used to think it would take €30,000 through an investor just to build early-stage prototype. I was wrong.

But at some point, I realized: I don’t need an investor. I can handle this myself. AI helped a lot too — it sped up many processes.