[doh]

It reminds me the “wrist snap” practice in tennis. I don’t remember the exact details, but it started because a successful tennis player said that’s what he does. Shortly after, thousands of trainers were teaching the method breaking wrist of naive students. It took high speed camera to confirm that no players use it [0].

The point is that people micro-tweak their behavior based on simple reward mechanism. Most can’t explain how they got there.

Top VCs are no different. They remind me chicken sexers (is that even a word?), who have differentiate gender by looking at their bottoms and quickly able to tell without ever being able to explain how they know [1].

With this long dribble I want to encourage founders to develop their own intuition. Create a pitch that makes sense to you and then tweak based on feedback.

[0] https://www.tacticaltennis.com/tennis-mythbusters-wrist-snap...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-intuition-of-...

[ceonyc]

Tweak based on feedback is exactly right!

Only problem is that VCs normally don't give any!

[doh]

What I look for is behavior rather than verbal feedback. I know where I have hit spots in the presentation. If they don't react, then they are not as strong as I thought. If they react negatively, I know I didn't explain them well.

But yes, most VCs will never bother follow-up.