“I send a monthly investor update to about 250 people, including investors who passed on us, and it became a cheat code for raising our Series A in under a week. A weekly call is overkill, so I'd redirect them to that monthly rhythm and keep the line clear: if it's not in the update, the answer is still being built.”
“I would tell that investor the truth: nothing meaningful changes in a week, and the calls are eating the time I need to make the quarter worth reporting. Then I'd propose a fixed monthly or quarterly update with a short email in between only if something breaks.”
“I send monthly investor updates, not weekly, because nothing real moves in a startup in seven days and I got tired of manufacturing news. I would tell that investor, I don't have an update yet, but the monthly email goes out on the first, and you'll be the first to know if something breaks.”
“I write investor updates on the first weekend of each month because weekdays are too chaotic, and that cadence lets me reflect honestly instead of rushing a check-the-box email. A weekly call for updates you don't have yet is a rhythm problem, not an information problem: I'd tell them what I actually track and when I send it, and offer a monthly update plus a standing call only when there's real news.”
“I send a short monthly email with our metrics, highlights, lowlights, and one specific ask. It takes me twenty minutes and keeps almost every investor off my calendar. If one still calls weekly, I'd tell them directly that monthly is the cadence and offer to loop them into the email list.”
“Set the expectation early and make it simple. I had a founder once who managed his business on a weekly cadence and just sent pre-seed investors one line every week—the revenue growth rate—sometimes that was it. Bullish. Make the rhythm clear and honor it; investors respect that more than scrambling for updates you don't have.”
“Tell them what you're shipping. Don't wait for the wins to be big enough; shipping means whatever moved you closer—a meeting, a hire, a code commit. Most investors are smart enough to know the real story is in the pace and the direction, not whether it's the story they expected.”
“Set up a monthly update cadence and stick to it—that's what turns a demanding investor into an informed one who trusts you enough to leave you alone. I've never missed one since we raised seed.”
“Set expectations upfront on cadence. Every week he calls is the week you didn't send an update. Send one at a fixed interval—whatever rhythm works, monthly or biweekly—and you've just solved this whole problem.”