[throwaway2016a]

This is kind of why I haven't replied directly to this one yet. I don't know how I feel, ethically, about wasting interviewers time. I've been on the hiring side of the table a ton in the last 13 years (just not on the other side of the table) and I'm not sureI'd be trilled if I found out candidates were doing this to me.

With that said, ethics aside, it does seem like a solid way to get practice.

[laurentl]

I suppose you've fundraised at some point in the past 13 years. If you have, the advice you probably received was to start with the tier 3 VCs, hone your pitch, and move on to the VCs you really wanted to work with once you had your pitch nailed.

The same principle applies here. The more interviews you do, the more comfortable you'll get, the better it'll go. And who knows, it might work out with one of the first companies you interview at!

[throwaway2016a]

That sounds like a good idea but oddly enough the first startup (the one I was at 10 years) only raised a friend and family and we were able to land customers and bootstrap from that and the second one I bootstrapped out of a little cash I got from the first one so no investors to go to per say.

Thanks for the advice, though!