An Open Letter to VCs: Please Get Out of Pre-Seed Investing

Your floundering in pre-seed/seed is hurting startups while losing money for your LPs

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readJan 29, 2024

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Dear VC Fund Friends:

I realize you look down on angel investors as amateurs because you have the luxury of getting paid to invest other people’s money while we have to write checks from our own…

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Entrepreneur, angel investor, startup mentor, sake snob. Author of the Silicon Valley mystery To Kill a Unicorn: https://amzn.to/3sD2SGH