Comment by skrebbel

I’ve fundraised in Europe, and as an HN-educated founder, I was surprised (and happy) to discover that pretty much every VC we talked to that didn’t want to move forward, told us so explicitly, reasonably quickly. And they were happy to explain why if we asked, which was instrumental for learning how differently than us they thought.

People love to complain about the European VC landscape, and how little capital there is compared to the US and so on, and they’re not wrong, but this to me is a stand-out positive. We felt taken seriously by everybody, just about nobody wasted our time.