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Rojas: Easy Kickstarter crowdfunding hurts hardware startups' operational discipline
“One of the things about when you're building, say, raising money for hardware on Kickstarter, for example, is that You can raise money so easily for if you lay out a compelling product vision that it actually takes away some of the constraints that would force…”
Rojas: Startup valuations at the seed stage have begun to rationalize
“I think that they've actually started to rationalize a little bit more.”
Rojas is open to cold emails and reviews every pitch
“I'm actually pretty open to the cold emails for what it's worth. I take a look at everything”
Rojas: Seed-stage investment decisions are driven by product, not metrics
“So not metrics driven at this stage for me. I think that what I care a lot about is I look at the product.”
Rojas: Venture community is open and friendly, not cutthroat
“I think one of the things that I, I've been pleasantly surprised by is how open and friendly other people in the community, the venture community are... I think there's maybe this stereotype that of feces is very kind of cutthroat and always trying to You know…”
Rojas: Weblogs Inc. took investment from only Mark Cuban
“We only had one investor in Weblogs Inc. It was Mark Cuban”