Some thoughts on investors collected from my experience and conversations with other founders!

Most investors:

• Are very smart people.
• Really want to see you succeed, wether or not they invested in you.
• Ask interesting questions when looking at your data.
• Work very hard, have difficult schedules and travel a lot.
• Understand the need to rest properly and to have family time.
• Are super well connected in the tech industry.
• Are personally relatable and have similar interests to founders.

On the slightly negative side, a majority of investors:

• Are very busy and spread too thin. They forget things and repeat questions.
• Overvalue plans. Plans are important, but challenges have tremendous uncertainty, variability and interdependence. That's why kanban is so popular!
• Are insecure and suffer too much from "me too" dynamics.
• Are mostly "about financial deals"; frequently, they don't really understand nor voice opinions on important tech trends.

The minority of Outstanding investors:

• Always give more than they ask. They are active ambassadors, users, product team members, etc.
• Have unique, god-view insights into your product and users.
• Have great taste.
• Are opinionated and useful when benchmarking your business, qualitatively and quantitatively (like metrics).
• Get you in contact with other people who also have the traits above.

To be continued!