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Seed investing
did not hold it against brand new CEOs. In fact, there's been a steady increase over the past decade in Angels' funding of first time CEOs with no experience. So that it's very good. At the same time, the quality of deal flow is not as good as it has
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...because they're investing their own money, but also they wanna make sure that they're helping you transition to the next to the next phase. I always,
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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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...investing, and we will do we will do we do make seed bets, but it's just also true that we can't structurally for for this re we cannot do all of the seed investments that we would like to do. In fact, we can't even do a tiny fraction of them. It's j
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that didn't have a wealth of investors rushing into it? I think casting a wide net, first and foremost. I mean, I was talking to probably eight different investors every day. I do think that another aspect of this is really kind of looking at the ang
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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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left and right and left and right. And it's hard getting funded the first time as an entrepreneur. It's also 2012. It's become a lot easier to get funded as a consumer business in the past ten years than it was then. But at the time, just everyone ju
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for partnerships, for entry into enterprise, etcetera. Next thing with angel allocations, a massive mistake I see often, is founders who try to cram down all their angels to their smallest allocation so they can fit in as many as possible. Do not do
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...professionally investing these smaller rounds. And so then you have this new term called pre seed investing.
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And the first bucket of investors are investors who, you really want in your cap table who are just like they're going to be almost an extended employee of your company. They're gonna help you with recruiting. They're gonna help you with hiring. They
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...actively investing. So people know, oh, I'm not gonna waste this person's time if they're obviously not actively investing and things like that. But, yeah, so that's where we're at. We just opened up earlier this year from our closed beta, and it's b
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...seed round. Accel wanna do 2.4, 2.5 of the 3,000,000 seed round, and then they've saved the rest for angels. They're not gonna let you come in and take 500 k or even 400 k and replace all of the angels. And because you're not leading, you don't have
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Got it. So I wanna talk a little bit on the angel investor side because, obviously, you have a lot of expertise on that. What are you seeing in terms of the changes in the angel landscape? You know, the old trope was that angels are a pale male still
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PR firm out of New York. Second company is Create and Cultivate, largest media events platform for ambitious women. Primarily conferences and events, but also we had licensing deal, podcast, books, things of that nature. And that was sold to private
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...seed. Around pre whatever pre seed means. I mean, we can debate, like, what these nomenclatures are. But, yeah, like, if you want to start a business now, there are hundreds of firms out there that at least on their website, we can debate, you know,
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and they make a big deal out of it. This is a sign of what they will be like to come. Do not accept it, and it's just really a sign of what they'll be like to work with in the future. So now we have our lead VC locked in and we have to allocate the r
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