Ferriss invested in SV Angel primarily to receive Silicon Valley intelligence reports
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Author and angel investor Tim Ferriss discloses on 20VC his motivation for investing as an LP in Ron Conway's SV Angel fund.
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“But the reason I invested 25 or fifty-k, whatever it was, in SV Angel, and their approach, I mean, it ended up being pretty smart on a lot of levels, was because I got a report card on pretty much everything in the Valley regularly. And that allowed me to go hunting more effectively.”
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