I agree with everything in @jasonfreedman’s outstanding blog post about raising seed capital in today’s environment.  I urge all seed stage entrepreneurs to give it a thorough read.

As Jason says, no investor should begrudge entrepreneurs for a strong fundraise in an attractive early stage financing market — but keep some perspective, this is a long game, and you can’t win it today at your seed stage financing.

I wasn’t able to make the YCombinator demo day this time due to a board meeting.  But For context of what I’m talking about, let me anonymize and share a representative email exchange from the previous demo day:

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Josh Hannah <jhannah@matrixpartners.com> wrote:

Impressive presentation and interesting business.  Would love to learn
more, if you’d be up for a meeting?

Josh

Hey Josh,

We’d definitely love to talk!  We’ll look for … Read More »