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YC demo day valuation tensions, how VCs can find gems, Substack's performance & more | E1716

This Week in Startups

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How to Invest in Venture Capital

Y Combinator president Gary Tan tweeted that value investing in venture is like searching for the lost keys under only brightly lit street lamps. Harry Stebbings then jumped in on this, saying you shouldn't worry about evaluation here and should just look at the ability, the product, the quality of market size. The best investors tend not to use heat as the same one way or the other.

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