LETTER

Notes from Jason Calacanis’ talk on August 22, 2017

Charles Jo
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

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Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/ssgslack/status/900207991252766721

  • 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

#1000BookReviews challenge: https://www.kanvz.com/charlesjo/canvas/1501436345159

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