Angels, super-angels, micro-cap VCs, and seed incubators are beginning to dominate early-stage consumer web investing. This is a permanent change because the underlying startups themselves have fundamentally changed. Startups also need to adapt to the new ecosystem of investors.
Presented by Naval Ravikant at the Capital Factory 2010 Demo Day in Austin, Texas.
About Naval Ravikant:
Naval is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList. Previously he was a co-founder at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), and Vast.com (largest white-label classifieds marketplace). Naval has also advised Bix.com, iPivot, and XFire, among others, and invested in many companies, including Twitter, FourSquare, Jambool, DocVerse, Mixer Labs, and Stack Overflow among many others.
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About Capital Factory:
Capital Factory is an early stage accelerator for tech startups based in Austin, Texas. Startup companies participate in an intense 10-week summer program that gives them up to $20,000 in cash, more than $20,000 in free services, and mentorship by a group of successful entrepreneurs. The program culminates in a demo day where the startups present to investors, the press, and the world.
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Excellent explanation of the shifts in the VC and angel domain.
josburger 1 year ago
Wow what a presentation by Naval, well worth the 36 minutes to watch it all. I'm raising angel funding this fall/winter so that information was great to absorb. Big fan of Venture Hacks too!
spidvid 1 year ago