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Either downside scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. We’re back in the “feel good angel&# phase.
Either scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. So where are we now?
Still, as a VC I value proprietary dealflow & long term relationships. I know it was over heated when a deal where I wrote one of the first checks on (as an angel, not VC) went out on AngelList. Mostly, I don’t believe that a VC not being on AngelList is “anti entrepreneur&# – it is not.
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