Tag: Startups
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Elad Gil is a Silicon Valley legend. After selling his startup to Twitter, he helped the company scale from 90 to 1500 people in under 3 years. He’s also had enormous success as an angel investor, investing in startups like Airbnb, Coinbase, Square and Stripe. So I was very excited…
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You’ve been meeting with investors day after day. You get a lot of “very interestings” but no actual checks. What are these people looking for? Today, I thought I’d explain what I look for in a startup. As an angel investor, I invest in about 1-2% of the companies I…
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You’ve worked really hard on your pitch to investors. But what if some of the things you’re saying are actually turning them off? Here are several things that can be a negative signal to investors: 1) No clear growth trend. If you don’t share information about month over month revenue…
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You’ve run through your deck a hundred times. You’ve practiced pitching to your cat. He declined to invest. Startup founders work incredibly hard to pitch their dream to investors and get funded. As an angel investor, I see a lot of presentations. So, I thought I’d share the 3 biggest…
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If you’re a startup founder raising money, you’re going to be sending cold e-mails. Lots of them. So what pitch gets angel investors and VC’s excited, and what turns them off? Here’s the e-mail I’d like to get: From: travis@ubercab.comTo: jim@filthyrich.vc Subject: UberCab intro – everyone’s private driver Hi Jim,…
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Lately, I keep seeing startups running into the same problems. As an angel investor, I work hand in hand with numerous startups. I also see presentations and deal memos from hundreds more. Let’s dig into some of the biggest challenges they have in common: Recruiting The labor market is red…
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What would it be like to not have ears? Unfortunately, for patients with microtia, this is no hypothetical. Microtia, or lack of a fully developed ear, is a congenital condition affecting about 1 in every 6-8,000 people. Some patients have a malformed outer ear. Others have almost no ear tissue…
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If you’re a fellow New Jerseyan, you know a big election is coming up. We have the constant barrage of commercials and junk mail to prove it. Doing some research on the races today, I came across an interesting initiative Governor Phil Murphy recently passed. It’s called the NJ Innovation…
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The US West Coast wildfire season used to be 4 months long. Now it’s 8, running from May to January. 2.5 million acres of land have burned in California alone this year. But for desperate homeowners in fire prone regions, there may be hope. Several new technologies have been developed…
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Tremendous 