We saw a great video today that every startup entrepreneur should take a look at. It is an online interview by Jason Calacanis of Brad Feld. Jason is an outspoken entrepreneur who recently created a huge online discussion about entrepreneurs having to pay substantial dollars to present to Angel investors. Brad Feld is an entrepreneur, turned Angel and VC, who is very entrepreneur centric and has a widely read blog (that’s where we found this).
This video is 2 hours long but the first 90 minutes are really worth listening to. It covers these topics:
- Types of Angel investors and cautions about the make up of Angel groups
- Paying Angel groups to present
- Building an entrepreneurial culture in Boulder (population 150,000) by importing entrepreneurs — thoughts for Sacramento?
- How, in web-based startups, having geeks on the startup team is more important than domain expertise
- Good tips on pitching with an entrepreneur pitching live over the phone
- How investors in multiple rounds of financing can destroy a company with in-fighting to the detriment of the entrepreneurs
- Passion and perseverance — with an example of one of Brad’s investments that took off after ten years!
Yes, it’s long but …….
