Do you Experience Rejection as a Roadmap or a Flash Flood? (opens in new tab)

Most of us quietly curate our invitation lists to protect ourselves from the sting of low attendance. We tend not to ask hard questions of people we know won’t go easy on us. We stick to friendlies and narrow the ask to control the outcome. We'd rather invite 10 people and have 8 show up than invite 100 people and have 30 show up — even though the second scenario is objectively better as an outcome (unless you’re an introvert, of course). The founders who fundraise well tend to have this same...