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Insight
Craig: Unproven investors have no business launching syndicates or venture funds
“If you're going to start a syndicate, please do it once you have some real fucking experience, because there's a lot of people start syndicates who have no business doing so, but it's the same with people who start funds and have no business doing so. If you'r…”
Paige Craig Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 12:14 20VC: 'The Best Seed Investors Hunt' with Paige Craig @ Arena VC
Opinion
Gil Penchina: AngelList syndicates are community-driven, not institutional financiers
“And so it's really more of a community. Of people helping people than it is professional financiers trying to make money for, you know, Oxford and Harvard and Princeton's endowments.”
Gil Penchina Feb 8, 2016 ▶ 4:47 20VC: Gil Penchina on Building The World's Largest AngelList Syndicate with Flight.vc
Opinion
Kamal Ravikant prefers operator AngelList syndicates over traditional VCs
“I would take their money over a lot of VCs any day, in a heartbeat, because I've actually been”
Kamal Ravikant Oct 7, 2015 ▶ 6:11 20 VC 077: Part 2: Kamal Ravikant: The Future Of Venture Capital
Opinion
Levine: AngelList syndicates enhance the traditional VC model
“No, I think that they enhance the traditional VC model, and it's great to see, I talked about the democratization of entrepreneurship, I'm equally excited and passionate about the democratization of capital.”
Seth Levine Aug 26, 2015 ▶ 25:19 20 VC 066: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Seth Levine: 'VC Is Not A Scalable Business'
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