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Over the summer I decided that it was time to try bootstrapping a company. It was slow going at first: designing the product, building the team, etc... But, over the past three months things have been accelerating quickly.

This week, out of the blue, we received an acquisition offer.

It's a good one, but, we're pre-launch and we really want to see what we can do outside of the confines of a more established company. If we're going to continue, it might be time to start exploring funding options.

We have a fantastic team composed of programmers, designers, and writers/videographers with strong ties to our industry.

Our tech team is already open sourcing parts of our framework and our media team has an audience of close to 100,000 for their board game review show/blog.

Does anyone know of an Angel or VC with a soft spot for modern board games?

Could you ask them to get in touch?

investingincardboard(a)gmail(dot)com

Something that I've noticed is that there's a pretty reliable series of events that take place before you're rejected.

Rejection seems to go something like this:

First, you'll notice that someone is reading your application. It'll trigger one of your alerts and you'll switch to watching your logs in real-time. You see what they're clicking on and groan in horror: "Oh no! They didn't look at the wireframes!!?!"

And then it's over. Silence.

BUT! About 2-4 hours later you get another alert! Someone else is reading the app!

You think: "Neat! We must have impressed someone enough to make it to the next round of review! This will change our lives! I need to get ready to move to San Francisco! I just bought two dozen eggs at Costco today, how am I going to get all of those chickens out to California?"

And then it's over. Silence.

An hour passes, two, three, four.

You spend the rest of the night sifting though your logs with the enthusiasm of an FAA crash investigator. The next day you wake up and immediately check your logs and analytics again.

Silence. It's over. Back to work.

It leaves me wondering, what kind of activity do you see before an application is accepted? Is there a calm before the storm as they make their way through all of the applications or is it a steady stream of activity?

What have others experienced this round?

I love my Aunt, but, I fell off my bed laughing while reading this.

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Mike,

I am not sure why but [REDACTED] has invited me to be his Facebook friend. I do not know him and I worry about his motives. I know he is a linux user and I worry he will hack me. I do use my bank accounts here not that I feel he would steal but I worry the info is vulnerable to someone who knows what they are doing.

Ok so here is my issue. We are not friends. I have never spoken to him only a few emails.Why in the world would he even go looking for me on Facebook. I'm sure he is a nice enough guy but really, I have only recenlty even started going there at all when I have messages.

What do you think..

PS, He has no idea im your Aunt. XOXOX.

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I should mention that she and my uncle own their own craft business and have the kind of life that most of us would kill for.