Finding the valley

First time ever in the invisible valley and getting prepared for some mentoring meetings with the so called VCs. The VCs are people and shall not be confused with toilets even though they do cause that same feeling of hesitation and being nervous when you are about to go, the nice relieving feeling when you’re doing it and that pointless wish of never having to go again when you’re done.

Having googled a little bit about “this and that” we had realized that the best entrepreneurs would show up to these meetings in shorts and t-shirts. So we dressed up in costumes and hit the road in our GPS-equipped rental-car... and after re-calculating our way down the winding slopes of La Honda Rd where our “angel” hosted us and after having hesitatively crossed the bridge between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto like 8 times we finally entered the offices of the “friendly VC” RB. On this side of the bridge. The tech-side.

Though just a sand-wedge from East Palo Alto. Shady fund maybe?

He taught us a little bit about pre-money valuation and he said in not so many subtle words that our pre-money valuation contained very few zeroes if any at all and that we should take a hike for a while. As did JG and pretty much everyone else we accidentally bumped into re-calculation our way through the area until we finally went to Vegas a couple of days later. Vegas felt safe. It was sick. But it felt safe.

We decided to come back another business model. It’s not that easy to hide from us. Somewhere, out there, we knew there was a valley to be discovered…

… but we had given up on the great bars.