Series A investors

“I find as I'm an investor, a seed investor in a lot of these and talking to later stage investors, Their hurdle is shipping. If you haven't shipped your product and you can't talk about metric and how customers are engaging with your product, you're, they don'…”

“If you think about an A round investor or B round investor, right, they're doing three deals a year, tops, maybe four, but really two or three.”

“At the seed round, investors aren't necessarily looking for what's a great idea. What they're looking for is what a Series A investor will think is a great idea.”

“The notion of misalignment is somewhat of a red herring because smart investors will see what we're seeing and that if the company hasn't done well, Then they're not going to be able to raise anyway.”

“Founders are put in this terrible situation of trying to do right by their early investors. And respect all of the contractual rights that they signed up for and new investors demanding minimum ownership thresholds. These founders are forced to either screw ov…”

“Some of these larger series A's as we've been seeing really do require quite a bit of commercial traction nowadays versus maybe even five or seven years ago.”

“There's a certain price which I think is too high because what I worry about is not that it doesn't work out numbers-wise, but I worry that it detracts or deters A-round people from actually investing. Because they are more price disciplined.”

“And while you're not seeing a proliferation of new B round focus groups, Back to our discussion five minutes ago, you're seeing the A round groups increasingly look to preempt and build bigger positions in their winners, or look for flexible partners that allo…”

“And they had raised both seed and Series A rounds, but last summer, they spent 3.3 million dollars to buy out the majority of their Series A investors, making them much more independent.”

“Investors like a lot Gil, Scott Belsky, the entire collective of hashtag angels, angels who are both helpful, but I think most importantly, they've established this track record in the ecosystem where they have the ears of series A investors.”

“Also, we, of course, foster our relationships with the A investors, and we tend to start working and only work with A investors who we know are going to come in and say, hey, we want to put in twenty million. We're going to do 19. Figure out the one that you h…”

“I actually think given a choice, you should have different investors for the C and the A because you just get two firms instead of one. They bring different things.”