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title: "\"Founders have it so hard\": Flying With Founders"
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source_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/flying-w-founders_jd-audena-invests-for-a-living-at-connectic-activity-7503123882908733440-TiNe"
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summary: "JD Audena from Connectic Ventures shares his perspective on the founder's journey, acknowledging that building a company is significantly harder than being a VC and that thinking about exits, while important, can feel demoralizing. The post highlights a rare VC who deeply respects the challenges founders face in bringing their vision to life."
tags: "founders, venture-capital, startup, vc-perspective, entrepreneurship, exit-strategy, founder-journey"
key_entities: "JD Audena (person), Connectic Ventures (organization), Anubhav Srivastava (person), Reuben Levinsohn (person), founder-vc relationship (concept), Startup Grind Conference (event), Uptales (technology)"
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# "Founders have it so hard": Flying With Founders

Flying With Founders 1,092 followers 1mo Report this post JD Audena ⚡︎ invests for a living at Connectic Ventures. Here is what he said about the other side of the table: "Founders have it so hard. It is much easier to be a VC. You are trying to bring a vision to life for so long, and thinking about the exit can feel demoralizing or off-plan. But it is important." A VC with that much respect for the founder's road is rare. Worth listening to. …more 19 1 Comment Like Comment Share Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Transcript Transcript Transcript Important, I think you know. Founders have it so hard. It's much easier to be a VC, but you know you're trying to bring a vision. Keep reminding me of that. Keep reminding me. You're trying to bring a vision to life for so long and it it can seem demoralizing or off topic or or off plan to be thinking about the exit, but it's important. Anubhav Srivastava 1mo Report this comment And someone who responds to cold calls. I had reached out to a handful of VC’s during one of startup grind conferences and JD responded back. Can’t wait to bring up Uptales back infront of him and you Reuben Levinsohn . Like Reply 2 Reactions 3 Reactions To view or add a comment, sign in