Investors often don't know anything, and their feedback can be subjective; it's important to find the right investors who are open-minded.

Investors are biased towards metrics that may not prioritize the startup's survival, focusing instead on growth and revenue.

Investors often respond to ideas that are popular or trending, which can mislead founders into thinking they should follow the crowd rather than pursue their own insights.

Founders should focus on areas where they have personal experience and knowledge, rather than relying solely on investor frameworks for assessing opportunities.

Many investors mistakenly follow trends set by others, like benchmark investments, without conducting their own due diligence, which can lead to poor investment decisions.

Investors treating startup investments like stock investments led to unrealistic expectations, as they applied public market valuation metrics to early-stage companies, which have much higher failure rates.

Investors evaluate founders by comparing them to previous successful ones, and a rejection can occur if a founder doesn't match that pattern or ranks lower than others currently pitching.

When investors have significant capital, they tend to invest in teams that appear to be attractive to other intelligent investors, which can lead to inflated valuations based on perceived potential rather than actual performance.

Most investments won't succeed, and it's easy to overthink and miss good opportunities; I try not to let past failures cloud my judgment.