I'm not going into deep details, as this matters require a lot of privacy, but the truth is that I have had a meeting with a VC that makes global investments.
It's too soon to know if the outcome of the meeting is a positive one, I mean, if we will continue speaking about working together. And there's a cultural difference that makes it hard for me to know if the other part was interested or just polite.
I think that I did it reasonably well, but I must admit that my spoken English was not as fluent as it should. In my daily life I read, write and hear a lot of English, but I don't actually speak English, so it takes me two days or so of only-English to get my brain used to it :-)
The meeting was not a presentation, it was something more relaxed, with no power point and just my cellular phones to show what we do. My interlocutor was very polite and professional, and I felt very comfortable.
She made a lot of questions, very well aimed to know if we have a clear view of our own business and what opportunities lay ahead for us. I know that I failed to mention a couple of things and that some of my explanations were not as clear as I would like. I have to improve that!
But she said a couple of times that she found our work very interesting, and she spoke about a possible big customer using "our" instead of "your".
I usually pay a lot of attention to that kind of details, as well as to the non-verbal communication, but sometimes I feel I'm a bit paranoid about it, and that I find information where there are only words.
I'm also a very optimistic person, so I try to keep my feet close to the ground until things actually materialize. I prefer to think by now that she was just polite.
If that is the case, I feel grateful for the time and interest.
But we have invested a lot of money, time and effort; we're absolutely commited to the project, and we're pretty confident that we will success: we have a great product that is starting to sell with great projections.
I really hope that we find a way to work with this guys I met, because we think they're the best VCs for our company, and because I need to keep focused on the company.
