Founder and Managing Partner at FirstMile Ventures
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Bill Miller invests or supports investments through FirstMile Ventures's published strategy: Be the first institutional investor in promising technology companies emerging from Colorado, Texas and other large non-coastal startup ecosystems.
Show founder-market fit, the first customer evidence, why the local ecosystem is an advantage, capital-efficient milestones and the path to national scale.
Resourceful early founders with local ecosystem advantage, a large market and evidence that a company outside the coasts can build category leadership.
No formal pass list is public. Companies outside the early-seed stage or without a connection to the firm's non-coastal ecosystem strategy appear less aligned.