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| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00112 | $0.02250 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00056 | $0.01125 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00450 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00225 |
Grade A, and why
fundraising-narrative scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.
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Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
VC Fundraising Narrative Skill
This skill provides first-principles guidance for crafting compelling fundraising narratives that resonate with venture capitalists, grounded in frameworks from Sequoia, a16z, Benchmark, Floodgate, NFX, and YC.
Core Philosophy
"The money flows as a function of the story." -- Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital
The narrative is not decoration on top of the business -- it IS the business case. Every element of a pitch must serve the narrative arc, and the story must be retellable in 30 seconds by a VC champion to their partnership.
The 10 First Principles
1. Story IS Strategy
Your pitch narrative = your business case. Ben Horowitz: "The company story IS the company strategy." If your VC champion can't retell your story in 30 seconds to their partners, you won't get funded.
2. Lead with the Earned Secret
The most differentiating element: a non-obvious, non-consensus insight earned through direct experience. Peter Thiel: "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Mike Maples: The key word is earned -- discovered through experimentation, not read in a report.
Mike Maples' Three Slides: The minimum viable pitch: (1) What you do, (2) Your non-obvious insight, (3) Proof validating the insight.
3. "Why Now" Is the Linchpin
Every great pitch answers why this moment is uniquely suited. Must be a specific inflection point, not a gradual trend. Three categories: technology shifts, regulatory changes, behavioral/cultural shifts.
Concrete inflection examples: Uber (smartphones + GPS + mobile payments converging), telehealth (post-COVID regulation change). Use the pattern: "In January 2024, API costs dropped 90%, making our solution profitable for the first time."
4. Prove Value Before Claiming Growth
Andy Rachleff: "The only way you can succeed is if you serve someone who's desperate." Show desperate customers and organic pull before discussing scaling. The cardinal sin: testing growth before proving value.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 12d ago First seen · 148 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 470beda15aac
fundraising-narrative is a skill published in the GitHub repository tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 2,250 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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