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The Advantages of Being an Angel (vs. a VC)

Rob Go

The reason is that most seed syndicates have room for 5-10 angels or more, but only room for 1-3 funds. Because of this, there is a lot of pressure for VC’s to get to an investment early, differentiate themselves meaningfully, and move with a huge amount of conviction. They also should be doing due diligence of some sort.

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Trada – from the beginning

VC Adventure

In it, he describes our philosophy around seed investing and differentiates it from what others (but not everyone) in the market is doing. This mapped with some of the ideas Niel was thinking about as well and over a series of months we tossed around a number of different ideas in search marketing.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. If you remember your history the market crashed the next week. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5