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Wtf is a “pre-seed founder”?
I’m stalwart enough in my leftism that anything that corpos love makes me question it immediately. I’ve nothing inherent against immigrants/refugees who come here through the (very flawed) process or even those who don’t but come here, integrate, and then contribute/participate positively within the communities they immigrate to.
However, the H1B shit just seems to a) exploit minorities/immigrants while holding their visa over their head (dems shouldn’t like this based on their principles) while b) outsources jobs that could likely be given to existing, qualified citizens (republicans shouldn’t this based on their principles), c) all to ultimately benefit a corporation’s quarterly earnings.
I dislike Trump as much as the next guy but I don’t currently have an issue with him obliterating the H1B program.
In startup land there are various named rounds of funding:
Pre-seed means you don't really have any investors and don't have an equity system set up. You're just somehow supporting yourself while trying to get your initial idea/demo/deck together.
Seed means that an investor (typically called angels) has given you enough money to live on while you develop things to the point that you're presenting to actual VCs.
Lmao consider me pre-seed then, where’s my money lmao.
"Pre-seed tech entrepreneur" is going right onto my CV.