Seed Capital From Angel Investors: AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant (Part 8)

Naval Ravikant: The combination of inexperienced investors with first-time entrepreneurs is not good. I am going to show you something else just to get my point across very clearly. Let me show you how many investors have applied to get in who haven’t even been processed. So, you see this page [on your computer], right?

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: OK, so, team, traction, social proof, and product are the four criteria. How do you gauge team? Naval Ravikant: Team is hard; we do not meet the people, so we just look at where they have been and what they have done. If they are at Stanford that helps, or on Facebook. All the usual

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Entrepreneurship Education: Are You Ready For Funding?

One thing we’re hearing continually from angel investors – mind you, angel investors, not VCs – is that entrepreneurs approach them too early and without adequate preparation. Folks, you cannot (and should not) do this. Once you get rejected by one investor, you will not be able to go back to that same investor anytime

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Forbes Column 08: Bootstrap Yourself

My new Forbes column Bootstrap Yourself highlights Silicon Valley’s hottest new trend, Bootstrapping. Great bootstrapping case studies I have covered are Sridhar Vembu, Frank Levinson and Jerry Rawls, Cree Lawson, and Beatrice Tarka. Sridhar, Frank and Jerry did it almost without any outside money, while Cree and Beatrice have done it with very small rounds

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Forbes Column 08: The Real VCs of Silicon Valley

Here’s my new column on Forbes: The Real VCs of Silicon Valley. It addresses the quest of entrepreneurs to find seed funding as the financing eco-system is going through its own set of changes. Especially for first time entrepreneurs, as we have been discussing, the battle is tougher.