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.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.I think this is valuable knowledge for non-US people trying to get into US-style work and funding.