“You can be so bad at so many things… and as long as you stay focused on how you’re providing value to your users and customers, and you have something that is unique and valuable… you get thro...
“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.” – Steve Jobs
It’s the AngelList centi-sesquicentennial and we want to share some stats with you. After 1.5 years, AngelList has seen… 8,000 intros. An investor has asked for an intro to a startup on AngelLi...
Before product-market fit, find passion-market fit. Building a product is a process, not a discrete action. And the Internet is efficiently arbitraged. Every single simple thing that can be done is b...
We post links to the very best startup advice on Twitter at @venturehacks. We read Hacker News, the best blogs, Quora, and everything else startup-related. Then we tweet about the best content we fin...
Naval and Mark Suster recently gave the keynotes at the 7th Founder Showcase. Andrew Chen did a better job of describing Naval’s keynote than I ever will: “People spend a surprising amoun...
“Every time the other party says ‘I want’ in a negotiation, you should hear the pleasant sound of a weight dropping on your side of the leverage scales.” – G. Richard Shell, B...
Go read Elad Gil’s You Should Read Every Word of Every Legal Doc. Some docs are too long and boilerplate to read, so this is how I read financing docs: Read and understand everything in the ter...
Eric Paley’s Curve of Talent is a brutal must-read. I’ve remixed it a bit to come up with the following definitions; the word’s are Eric’s, I’ve just re-ordered them: F ...
Congrats to TechCrunch Disrupt winner GetAround. Guess what they used to raise part of their first round?
We’ve covered this before, but it’s worth repeating: don’t raise money in series, raise it in parallel. Don’t talk to one investor at a time, talk to all of them at once. It&#...
Mike at TechCrunch published a nice post today about VCs who use AngelList. I especially like the quote he pulled from DFJ’s Josh Stein. The only part I disagree with is the “VCs hate Ang...
AngelList now has a sweet new blog. Therein, the AngelList team expounds upon the latest features, including screenshots that are sure to bring you great joy. Our team is using the AngelList blog to ...
I recently wrote that it’s “fair for founders to own about 100% of a startup while employee #1 only owns a few percent.” My argument was that the dollar value of stock that founders...
“The easiest way to become a millionaire is to start off a billionaire and go into the airline business.” – Richard Branson I’m not an investor. And maybe that’s a good thing....
Mark Suster is interviewing a founder who used AngelList on This Week in Venture Capital. Today. This Wednesday 5pm Pacific. The show is live and you can send in questions. Watch it here. If you been...
We can now match investors and startups based on location at http://angel.co/locations. It’s simple. Investors follow locations and startups add location(s) to their profile. Then they get matc...
Startups are starting to raise Series A’s and B’s from big VCs on AngelList (Ed: We should have spent more than 30 seconds thinking of a name for the site). Taulia recently raised a $3M S...
If you’re looking for more non-AngelList content go subscribe to my posts on Quora. The latest post, Fred Wilson’s 5 rules for finding product/market fit and turning it into dollar bills ...
Is it fair for the founders to own about 100% of a startup while employee #1 only owns a few percent? Are the founders 10-1000x more valuable than their employees? The answers are Yes, it is fair. Va...
You can’t do all the work in a startup yourself. So you have to scale. Here are four ways to scale: People Product Capital Community In detail: People. Hire people to help you. This will be you...
Some people don’t like our posts about AngelList. I’ve heard this enough times now that I want to address it. But first, thanks for the feedback and for reading our stuff. Here we go… Ang...
Liz Gannes from AllThingsD has a great article on AngelList today: “AngelList ran the numbers this week and found that venture capitalists are actually more active than angels on its year-old s...
The venture industry works on the premise that investors are generalists and entrepreneurs are specialists. VCs are good at being, well, VCs, and the entrepreneurs have to be really good at whatever ...
See Part 1 for an introduction to the new markets feature on AngelList. This part is all about the details. Creating new markets We encourage people to use existing markets, but anyone can create a n...
AngelList now has markets at http://angel.co/markets and they look like this: The markets are structured as a tree—like your desktop file system—with markets inside other markets. If you prefer to vi...
AngelList has changed a lot since we launched it, so I want to describe how the site works today. 1. Share your startup with investors First, you create a startup profile and pick which investors can...
There are almost 300 VCs on AngelList now. Investors from Sequoia, Kleiner, Accel, Greylock, CRV, A16Z, and on and on. They all take intros via AngelList and you can see which ones are the most activ...
“Sweat the details and corner cases… Fix the bugs no one else notices.” – Facebook’s Aaron Sittig at a Design Tech Talk (video)
When you build a new feature, you try to think about its benefits. But you never know what the real benefits are, until you talk to gratified users. But getting out of the building and talking to use...
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