A few days ago at the Virtual VC Conference — 7,000+ registered, co-hosted by Techstars — I ran five investor panels inside the SPIKE Series room. Panel 3 was different. No fund metrics. No portfolio composition. Two former professional athletes — one who played in the NBA's European equivalent, one who played six years in the NFL — talking about what elite performance actually looks like from the inside. What they said maps directly to where most founders in the $100K–$3M range are getting...