Angel Investor Revenue Seattle Technical Review 
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
I have a vivid memory of bombing a pitch that I was delivering to a group of angel investors in Seattle. Investors care more about how you’re going to a.) get to revenue, b.) Offend your investors by over using acronyms and technical terms. Bombing the Pitch. scale it over the first year, and 3.)
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
.” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison.
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