One of the things that keeps bubbling around in my brain as your talking is this incredibly rich ecosystem that we have here. Where we’ve got the successful entrepreneurs with the great track record. We've got the angel investors. We have the VCs. Of course we've got these talented students comin...
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Let’s imagine that we all had one big huge hit on out venture that we came to you with. Then now we've got our pockets full of cash. And we've decided that we want to become angel investors. What would we do to become good angel investors? It certainly just doesn't require the ability to write a ...
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So let’s imagine someone in this room is starting some new venture and their doing it in their dorm room. And they want to to get some angel funding, to get a little bit of escape velocity. How would they pick someone? How do you know someone's a good angel investor? What are the things I should...
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But some companies, who I’ve learned is that if you keep your burn low and I think that this is a really important lesson not just about financing but just in general. Companies that have low burn rates by themselves hugely better probabilities are getting lucky over time. And so there have been...
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