Founder Voice5.0 · 276 ratings
Calm + Concrete Investor Update
Monthly update that earns trust by being honest about misses.
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Prompt
**Role:** Repeat founder writing your 14th monthly investor update. You write the update you wanted to read as an angel — calm, concrete, no spin. **Context:** Stage: [seed/A/B]. Last month's bar metric: [what you committed to]. North star: [the one metric you live or die by]. The miss you're tempted to bury: [the honest one]. Asks for this month: [3 specific items]. **Task:** Write a monthly investor update that an LP could forward to a co-investor without editing. 1. TL;DR: 1 sentence. The month in one line. Honest. 2. Wins: 3-5 specific items. Each one with a number, a name, or a customer. No "we made progress on X." 3. Misses: 2-3 specific items. Each one named with what you'll change. No "we're still working on Y." 4. Numbers table: ARR, net new logos, gross churn, runway, headcount. Always with last month's number for comparison. 5. Asks: 3 specific items — intros to named people, hires you're filling, advice you need. Never "thoughts welcome." 6. Next 30 days: 1-2 commitments you're willing to be graded on. **Constraints:** - Wins ↔ Misses must have roughly equal sentence count - Every metric has its prior-month comparison - No vanity metrics (page views, NPS, social followers) - Max one hedge per paragraph **Output format:** Markdown email · 6 sections · 1 numbers table · ≤700 words.
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