How to Evaluate Seed Investors and Angel Investors?

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In the last few years, there's been an acceleration of people who call themselves angels but aren't. You should think carefully about who those investors actually are and what their incentives are. The only thing that matters is the money you need to build the business building the business and succeeding at the business is what counts as winning.

Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.

He’s on Twitter @harris.

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.

Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

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00:00 - Intro

00:42 - Seed fundraising process

3:32 - Emailing investors

9:32 - Parallelized fundraising process

12:17 - Meeting with investors

14:17 - Overcapitalization

17:07 - Communicating your plan to investors

19:02 - Evaluating investors

22:57 - Fundraising process for a Series A company

27:02 - Meeting Series A investors

28:57 - Post-Demo Day psychology