Appreciation post: the pitch judge at a Halifax startup mixer who asked if we had any actual customers

Wyatt Chen · 2026-10-19T03:10:02.635847+00:00

Was at a mixer on Barrington St back in March pitching our $12k seed round to a panel, and one judge cut me off mid-slide to ask how many people had actually paid us. I had zero, and he just nodded and said come back when it's five, which stung but saved me six months of building features nobody asked for. How do you all handle the demo day hype vs actual revenue question when investors ask?

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