Thread by @TeppeiTsutsui

1/ #game #founders, ok, you have a pitch deck, solidify your narrative, have a list of game investors. Now what? Reaching out to 100+ investors immediately? Not in a rush! I like this phased approach, I call it the "batch processing approach" 👇

2/ the idea is simple, you create a batch of "investors", each batch includes 20+ investors. Every week you reach out to a new batch, looks like this

Week 1 - email batch 1 investors
Week 2 - meetings w/ batch 1 + email batch 2
Week 3 - meetings w/ batch 2 + email batch 3...

3/ a few things to note

- you probably need to find someone who can connect you to investors, and this might take time
- always start with angels, they can decide fairly quickly, might give you some advice and even intros
- save your "dream" investors for batch 3 or later

4/ benefits of this approach are

- you can get better at pitching as you meet more investors
- you can continue to improve your narrative and deck from early feedback
- investors tend to ask the same questions, and you can learn what investors would want to know

5/ ...continues

- you'd be able to address these questions from investors during the pitch, every before they ask
- you can build momentum and also early commitment
- by the time you start speaking with your *dream* investors, you're better at pitching, have soft commitments!

6/ it doesn't go always as planned, but you get an idea. This approach works well especially you're raising for the first time. As you go on, you can also adjust # of investors in each batch.

7/ There are a few downsides as well - it would take a little longer than an approach you reach out to all the investors at once. This assumes you can reach out to any investors you know thru intros - this is pretty hard, too.

8/ warm intros to investors are always better, but in case you can't find any connections, you may need to do a cold email. But this will be a separate thread.