How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
>It’s a VC’s job to keep the door open. Many were ‘blown away’, then passed before the second meeting. This is normal.<p>I'm sometimes working with US-Americans and not being US-American myself, I feel like this is also a US-cultural thing? In important meetings with US stakeholders I struggle to read the room because everything is always 'awesome' and 'amazing', there's rarely upfront criticism. Honest feedback has to be pried out of people later at the bar.<p>I think this is valuable knowledge for non-US people trying to get into US-style work and funding.