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Investing at Founder-Market Fit

Tom Wilson · Tom Wilson (Medium) Free Intermediate

A seed investor explains what he actually looks for as founder-market fit and how he weighs it across a whole team rather than one person. Reading the investor lens helps you present a complementary pairing as a strength instead of apologizing for the non-expert. It stays concrete about the signals, not platitudes.

  • Investors read fit across the entire founding team
  • A complementary split is a feature, not a weakness, to a VC
  • Show earned insight into the problem, not just enthusiasm
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The question it answers

  1. My co-founder has the domain expertise and I don't. Do we split founder-market fit, or is only one of us 'the fit'?

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