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Naval Ravikant

Getting in the middle of financial transactions is a regulatory minefield.

– Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant

On AngelList, we get 100 new companies created a day. That’s an insane flood.

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Naval Ravikant

In an ideal world, you raise a lot of money and then there is a downturn, before you start investing so you get better deals. But it doesn’t always happen that way.

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Naval Ravikant

Unlike a normal venture fund, we never stop raising capital. We can always absorb new capital on the platform and into the next deal as long as we feel it won’t distort the allocation and the pricing.

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Naval Ravikant

With tech startups, it’s all loose-goosie. You raise money as you go, often from friends, family and investors.

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Naval Ravikant

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

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Naval Ravikant

Rules that may be easy for Wall Street are a death sentence for startups. They are easy to break accidentally and the penalty for noncompliance is severe.

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Naval Ravikant

We are seeing a lot of cases where the startups are writing the term sheet, dictating the terms, selling common stock instead of preferred stock, where they don’t give the investor veto rights or board seat or privileges, and they are really asking the investor — why should I take your money when there is other money available.

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Naval Ravikant

When the venture industry started, it was enough to just have money and then it was enough to sort of have this big fuzzy brand. But now startups are getting a lot smarter.

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Naval Ravikant

For us, just serving the market in the US and the UK, we can barely make the math work on an interesting business. My sense is that our clones and copycats are very manual. If they make it work, then congratulations to them!

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Naval Ravikant

VC firms that don’t have a brand are going to struggle. Because there is a lot of money out there, you need to have a point of view, a brand, to really add value. You can’t just talk about it, and say well, we are smart people.

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Naval Ravikant

I don’t think I’m any smarter than any of my developers.

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