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angel investing
The second is is there's no pipeline problem of finding under invested entrepreneurs. There just isn't. If you talk about what you wanna do and do the work, it will happen. And that's what happened with the Opportunity Fund. So you certainly could ha
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so you don't have any extra cash to invest. There's government grants that are very uncertain. And then VCs are kind of concentrating more and more towards experienced managers, large rounds, very sector concentrated in terms of AI, you know, and rel
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...investing in founders sometimes before they even know what it is they're founding. Every once in a while, I'll see a kid pitching in a Little League baseball game or acting on a school stage or turning in a blockbuster science fair exhibit and think,
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if you don't have people around you with money that wants to invest, it's oftentimes, like, it's gonna be maybe you can make it happen and then a lot have and congrats to them. But the personal sacrifices that you have to make to get something off th
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...angel investors really turned out to be a big deal. But talking to that quantity of investors, I think, was a big part of our success in getting funded. And I'll just to give you a little bit of an anecdote on this, I had talked to so many investors
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...angel investment space because all of our initial investors and in fact, for a long time,
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a $50,000,000 fund that's deployed over two years every two years is the same as a $100,000,000 fund that's deployed every four. What we've done is we've just picked a model, which is which says sort of what's the right stage, what's the right owners
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It is a sheer numbers game. It was Mickey Cusi at Volt who said on the show recently, for his series b, he got 68 rejections before Laurel Bowden at eighty three North said yes. Volt sold in 2021 for a reported $7,000,000,000 to DoorDash, making a mo
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I think the main advice would be just to make sure that you know what that investor can bring to the table other than money. There is definitely many ways to get funding that are not receiving, direct investments. And just for founders to stay aware
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like us enough to wait till May to see if we're interested, but a lot of students get funded. If they're looking for search funding, they're doing it before that. And if they're unfunded, well, they don't need funding. And then when they come time to
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...investing in the idea. Right? And we we basically challenged that status quo, but I think it is becoming more normal now. Now it's never been easier for a young person to raise some sort of capital, you know, raise 20 or 50 k or a 100 k in a in angel
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like, helping and guiding those new startup founders to bring the companies from from startup to scale up. And they want to collaborate, and and that's how the idea of a fund, started to exist. And and that's why we, after a few investments, immediat
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...in investing for decades, and he went through slide by slide and told me all the dumb things that were on the slide, things that I should take out, things that I should add. And he's like, I've raised billions of dollars, and this is how you should p
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...angels. And because you're not leading, you don't have ball control of the round. So does it not Oh, Harry, you're thinking like such such a fund manager because I said a 100 to 500 k, and you're immediately thinking that means we go and wanna take t
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And so you've got funds who are kinda chasing this hockey stick. Now, like, what goes up often comes down pretty steeply, so I think there are gonna be some shoes to drop in the coming years around some of these hockey stick companies. What's changed
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he will put money into small funds. Those small funds then don't have the ability, in some cases, to take their pro rata and maintain their percentage ownership in later funding rounds, but he'll come in and give the ability to do that and then share
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...investing a seed, typically, these strategies are probably happening a bit at late seeds once there is the first round. The first round, some most of the times is happening below the radar. Maybe a founder has put, oh, okay. I'm I'm on sales. There's
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I did a second SPV in a software company called Monetate and raised a couple million bucks in it. Same way I funded it. And then after that, Jim Schneider, the former CFO of Dell, who was one of my early LPs in Bizar Boys, said to me, hey, I love wha
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...not an angel. And so say we have now, as we often do, many of the multistage funds come earlier. I'm just doing a hypothetical scenario. It's a 3,000,000 seed round. Accel wanna do 2.4,
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