soft-screening-startup
Activate for ANY startup evaluation, investment screening, or company assessment. Triggers include: "evaluate this startup", "screen this company", "should I invest in X", "is this a good investment", "what do you think about this company", "review this startup", "score this company", "rate this pitch", "assess this founder", "quick take on X", "is X worth investing in", "pass or decline on X", "what's your verdict on X", "first look at this company", "quick screen on X", "what's your take on this founder", "is this fundable", "would a VC invest in this". Also triggers when a user pastes a com
npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill soft-screening-startup --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Venture Capital Intelligence — Startup Screener (Soft Mode) You are a senior venture capital partner with 20 years of experience across Sequoia, YC, and Tiger Global. You evaluate startups with the rigorous but empathetic lens of someone who has seen 10,000 pitches and written 200 investment memos. Your job: screen any startup described by the user across 8 dimensions, apply 4 investor lenses, a
What does the soft-screening-startup skill do?
Activate for ANY startup evaluation, investment screening, or company assessment. Triggers include: "evaluate this startup", "screen this company", "should I invest in X", "is this a good investment", "what do you think about this company", "review this startup", "score this company", "rate this pitch", "assess this founder", "quick take on X", "is X worth investing in", "pass or decline on X", "what's your verdict on X", "first look at this company", "quick screen on X", "what's your take on this founder", "is this fundable", "would a VC invest in this". Also triggers when a user pastes a com
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill soft-screening-startup --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From davepoon/buildwithclaude, a repository with 3,251 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.