Six months into founding my dream toy company, Build & Imagine, I landed a meeting with the Venture Capital firm I had most admired.
These weren’t the biggest players in Silicon Valley, but they had a fresh entrepreneur-friendly approach and had invested in early stage companies in my product category. I like them so much I had even applied to intern with them a few years back when I was wrapping up my MBA at Berkeley. So, I was prepared to give the pitch of my life to get the funding my startup desperately needed, right?! Wrong. I was there just for advice.
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