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The Cautious Capital Playbook
Why Tim is raising as little as possible in a market nobody can forecast.
How it works
- 1The old path (angel, seed, Series A, dilution) had predictable guardrails; those guardrails are gone.
- 2A Series A is the new pre-seed, and VCs can't forecast AI-era returns for their LPs.
- 3Raise as little as possible, stay capital efficient, keep optionality in a market nobody can predict.
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