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“Investors may for one month feel a little jittery, but eventually they will stand with you and they will guide you. They've been there. They've seen that.”

“Founders sometimes see it as a little bit of intrusion that investors trying to kind of control or getting into too much.”

“I also think investors don't want To operate the business. As long as they get the confidence that you're operating the business, and add the principles that they have committed in turn to their, you know, partners, et cetera that becomes a smoother relationsh…”

“Accept the fact that you could be wrong. You will be wrong all the time, and that's fine. It's okay. But if you get rigid and forced in your way and know my way or the highway or everyone else in the world is an idiot, Ah, my customers are stupid. They don't u…”

“The moment we believe that we know anything more than the entrepreneurs in the market, we have failed. So the first lesson instilled out of that is, our entrepreneurs know more. So listen. Every meeting, even if you know the answer you think, you be quiet and …”

“When you have an investor, then, like it or not, he's gonna be like a boss to you, who's gonna be asking you those important questions,”

“Once you start a business and you've got some passion and some, got some inspiration behind it, you have to stick it out for a while. And you have to prove it to yourself that it works or doesn't work more than Following what somebody else says, especially the…”

“I think investors sometimes tend to get very micro in their approach. I think you want to focus on a few big things and you want to be consistent about those things so that the You know, founder can also quickly see that every meeting with you should add value…”

“Many times people blame investors, but a lot of times I feel founders don't take the process very seriously. Whether you know, and I don't know exactly why, because I assume they want to get the capital in fast, but you know, you have to understand that there …”

“Should not ever take an investors know as validation. That's the worst thing that you can ever do to a business because most investors look retrospectively. So they are looking at businesses that have been already proven. If you take validation from investors,…”

“As investors, within the 1:15 minutes, we know in our mind whether we are going to do it or not. And if you're not going to do it, just be upfront about it.”

“When the crisis hits one of the things is to be pragmatic and non-emotional, right? Which is actually a contradictory quality to when we appraise entrepreneurs upfront where we want them to be passionate and all that. But they have to be sort of passionate and…”

“As an investor, you need to be dispassionate, you know? So in fact, passion makes you know, not be a great investor, right? Because you get too attached to different things. You don't really it's hard to, Figure out the right time to sell if you are very passi…”

“We have 7000 investors from 55 countries who have heard about us. So, you know, we have a lot of people who have reached out to us and who were curated and onboarded. So, we also reject about 40% of people who come to become investors in the platform.”

“On our platform today, we have 7000 investors. I will not believe this, but I have not spent a single dollar on marketing. I have not, we never, we don't have a salesperson who is selling angel investing to people.”

“Your accessibility to people that are important whether they're investors or whether they're NGOs or they're, you know, H and I's, it becomes much easier because I think you know, as an actor, when you call somebody and say, look, I'm trying to start something…”

“And investors try to keep that, keep founders and early teams in poverty for longer. They feel like that person will put in Jeejaan for their cost. It's a bad idea because your burnout risk is high.”

“Culture matters to long-term investors because it empowers the company's employees to perform their daily tasks slightly better than their competitors do. And over time, these small advantages compound into much larger advantages That lasts far longer than con…”

“You are not bringing on board investors, but building highly valuable companies, and that mindset is very different, ok, because you can now afford to take, for one example, you can take the long term view, ok, on doing business. You are not beholden to invest…”

“Telling somebody, 1,000,000,050 billion, hundred billion, beyond a certain point, intuitively, you cannot wrap your head around it. Instead, when you tell them that, Look at this eight hour period when a marketer works. Look at this eight hour period when a de…”

“Non-IITN, non-AMG, non-tech guy, solo founder are all red flags for investors.”

“I think first is when you start a call as a first time founder and it's your first call, see if the investor is introducing themselves first or not. And if the investor asks you to start pitching, then it is a big no, right? He's always sitting on a higher ped…”

“An operator is actually a very undiversified investor, right? So your bar for selecting the company that you're going to spend a few years is very high. So you actually have to be a very good investor with a little bit more risk aversion than a typical investo…”

“We don't even try to place our brand Bending Spoons onto our product businesses. We let them be autonomous in that regard. Our brand is only meaningful toward investors and job candidates, the Bending Spoons brand. We don't want it to be necessarily meaningful…”

“I think the foundational layer is just absent in India. And I think that has to do with talent that has to do with capital availability and others. We just don't have enough deep pockets To go after that. But more so it is, I think nobody was focused. No inves…”

“Many investors, specifically entrepreneur investors are essentially looking for people like themselves, and they're looking for their own qualities in those people in some way.”

“I believe at least 50% of founders massage the data and the numbers before they come to the investor.”

“Where with the investors, you are presenting them larger than life vision that I talked about. With your customers, you have to match your story to the outcomes that they care about.”

“The one thing I would say to founders is look out for your employees because chances are, especially for a lot of young founders, they're going to work with these people again. And so treat them really well. Treat them better than you treat yourself. Advocate …”