The cover story of this month's Progress is my story on Jevon MacDonald's adventure in Silicon Valley, where he spent months raising his A Round for GoInstant. In the story, MacDonald pooh-poohs the rumours that he hit up existing contacts for money. Virtually everyone who invested was someone he met last year through sheer gumption. His advice is that if you're going to tap California funders for investment, plan to spend a lot of time in Northern California.