It's been 6 months since I made the decision to talk to a stranger every day. A proper conversation.

Because I heard Dan Martell saying at one point "Never eat alone."

Some of them were in real life, some of them on Zoom, plenty in the DMs. There have been 178 days so far, I think I had over 200 conversations. It's a lot for someone neurospicy such as myself.

A couple of things happened:

• my Instagram account is now flagged as "scam" because I sent out so many Calendly links
• I landed a summer job as a fintech scout for Brinc VC
• I started making educational materials for startup founders, because they were the ones reaching out.

Now, I'll say this to you: I fucking hate startups.

I hate the concept. I despise the notion that, if someone has an idea they are automatically entitled to focus on seeking investments rather than growing the business, like everyone else

That being said, this role for Brinc violently grew the amount of strangers that I was speaking to. It scaled way beyond my human capacity, so I decided to build a Typeform with 4 simple questions:

1. Do you have an established company?
2. Do you have a full time team and at least 1 blockchain developer?
3. Do you have a working product/PoC?
4. Are you sure you want this?

80% of the applicants failed the first question. They were seeking institutional investments without even having an established company. Many of them haven't really built anything but were confident they could build something in hours instead of the 12 weeks of the accelerator program.

First of all, fuck Claude.

Second of all, look. If you really want to successfully raise outside funding for your business, IE get money from strangers, you have to know how to communicate.

DD is not a cup size, it is due diligence.

If you really wanna raise funds, I can't help you. Only you can help you. Investors invest in you. So you have to be prepared to properly present your business.

And I know it's lonely. It's alienating. Nobody around you really understands wtf you're doing. It's also somewhat humiliating.

I know this because many founders asked "hey is there a group where I could meet other founders?" There wasn't but I've built something. I've built an educational app that takes through each step of preparing your data room package: one-pager, pitch deck, business plan, financial model, cap table. I've made a Discord channel where we can talk about it and review the docs together. We can also all get together on weekly Zoom calls. And never eat alone.

​Here it is. (👈 click here)