Charles Hudson explains how startup success metrics shift rapidly, sometimes monthly, leaving founders uncertain if their growth targets still matter. Investors see market feedback constantly while heads-down founders miss the changes. His advice: grow fast, answer investor questions, and hope it's enough.
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I think the hardest. Well, there are many things that are hard about being a fund right now. I think one of the harder things is depending on when you go fundraise, the bar for excellence might have changed dramatically in a month or a quarter and you might have been racing toward a goal that was the right goal when you started the company, but now it just isn't enough. And it's much easier to have a sense of that as an investor because you're in market and you're constantly getting feedback than it is when you're a founder and you're like, hey, I'm heads down building and I saw a tweet that said that triple, triple, double, double was good enough. And now I see another tweet that tells me that it isn't. What am I supposed to do? I'm like, I don't know. It's really hard. Grow as fast as you can, answer as many questions as you can and hope that it's enough.