LETTER
Notes from Jason Calacanis’ talk on August 22, 2017
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read
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- Proprietary deal flow is leverage based on growing personal network.
- He holds private events.
- 90% of tickets are free for his public events Launch and Scale.
- Optimize for the right things instead of meaningless metrics to trick investors: eg. “I got written up in Tech Crunch.”
- Right metrics: paying customers, hired someone from top company (eg. Google), tracking metrics.
- Incubators are now expecting more: many have $10k-$20k/month revenue run rate.
- Angel the book is for angel investors and founders.
- Unicorns create 100s, 1000s new angel investors so it’s impossible to meet all the investors in Silicon Valley whereas many other areas you can meet almost all investors in1 week.
- NPS.
- The biggest message was hustle.
P.S. Book recommendation: Angel investing by Jason Calacanis
Book info: http://angelthebook.com
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