Comment by calbear81

The two sets of questions are asking fundamentally different things. The "bad" questions are all about the market your company has entered, the potential size and value of that market and who the competitors are that are in the space. This is important because your "good" questions are all about whether your team can execute and what growth/adoption rate but with an unknown market size. You can certainly grow to be a big fish but if it's a small pond you're playing in that may be less compelling to that investor. On the other hand, an investor may want to make a bet on a smaller fish in a big pond knowing that there's a lot of room to grow even if it means there's higher risk. Both sets of questions are important in my opinion. The 1st set establishes whether or not I even want to invest in this space and the 2nd is if your company is the one I want to place my bets on.