For Founders: How did you find investors for your tech startup? I'd love to hear: - How did you find your first investor? Was it through your network, cold outreach, an accelerator, a pitch competition, or something else entirely? - Did you have a strategy going in, or did the path reveal itself as you went? - What worked that you didn't expect to work, and what failed that you assumed would be easy? - Before investors came in, how were you keeping the business alive financially? (savings, early revenue, grants, pre-sales?) - What do you wish someone had told you about the investor search before you started it?