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Phil Nadel

95 statements across 61 episodes · 29 bullish · 47 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2025 by Phil Nadel · said 13 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel commits $250,000 to Babyscripts
“I'd like to participate. So so I'm in for 250,000.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:27 #1 Babyscripts
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Insight
Nadel: Founders investing VC money must pay the minimum possible wage
“When you're investing your own money, do the right thing. When you're investing my money, pay the minimum you can pay.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 23:10 #3 Industrial Organic
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Nadel: Commits $250,000 to invest in Skylights
“I'm going to keep it simple. I'm in. I want to be in, I like this deal. No, two 50.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:43 #4 Skylights
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Insight
Nadel: Investing in gaming studios is gambling due to rapid copycats
“It's just like gambling. You're trying to pick winners, and then six months later, Someone else comes out with a game that's a similar concept, but a little better, a little cuter. Boom.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:54 #6 Guru Games
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Phil Nadel claims he would not invest in a pre-revenue Facebook
“If a pre-revenue Facebook deal presented itself to me, I don't think I would invest because I don't invest in pre-revenue companies, and I don't know that I would be omniscient enough to know that this new, this Facebook, this company will be able to successfu…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 28:30 #7 Shimmur
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Nadel: Will invest in Hykso if LOIs convert into paid contracts
“I'm gonna pass for now. In four and a half months, if there are contracts, I'm in even, you know, if it means a higher valuation at that point”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 20:48 #8 FightCamp (formerly Hykso)
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Phil Nadel would pay for a customized recipe app over meal delivery
“I would pay a decent amount for that, and I wouldn't get, I wouldn't buy the delivery.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:50 #9 Tuckrbox
Mar 3, 2025
Disclosure
Phil Nadel: Startups must show early proof of capital-efficient customer acquisition
“I want to see that they have already proven that they have an efficient Method of acquiring customers, and it doesn't have, they don't have to be very far along in that, but some early evidence that they can acquire customers in a capital efficient way, and th…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:00 #13 Meet the Investors
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel passes on Tushy over defensibility, market education, and founder history
“My concern is I don't see enough that's proprietary in, in the product functionality I'm concerned about going on this educational journey with you. You know, where it's, I see it as a journey, and I'm sure you do too, of educating a market that's not accustom…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:23 #14 The Ghost of Startups Past: Tushy
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel: All four investors view Shift as a data play
“We need to make sure that he's on the same page with the four of us, because we all see it as a data play, right?”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 23:52 #15 A Veteran Starts a Startup: Shift
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Slagh: Shift added 30 to 40 syndicate investors via Phil Nadel
“So far, we've added between 30 and 40 additional smaller investors through his syndicate, so we're seeing checks of 2500 dollars or 5000 dollars or 10,000 dollars, and it's really, really interesting to me to see the types of people who are getting involved.”
Mike Slagh Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 29:22 #15 A Veteran Starts a Startup: Shift
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Nadel passes on Qleek citing a lack of proven product-market fit
“I like to get in once we see product market fit, or at least some early evidence of that. So, I'm a little bit torn on this one, but I think I'm gonna pass.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:37 #16 Qleek
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Insight
Nadel: Founders Should Not Raise $20,000 Micro-Checks From VCs
“I don't think you want to raise 20,000 dollars or a small amount like that from VCs. I think, you know, you need to find a way to fund that. But I think, you know, for, that's short money, you know, and you should either fund that yourselves, friends and famil…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 22:39 #18 ROWViGOR
Mar 3, 2025
Disclosure
Nadel: I do not invest in pre-revenue companies
“I don't invest in pre-revenue companies.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:39 #18 ROWViGOR
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Nadel: Retailers Struggle to Give Consumers Compelling Reasons to Download Apps
“You have to have a compelling reason for every retailer to get their customers to download an app, and I don't think it's easy to do.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:33 #19 Sandbox
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Muccio: Investors Charles Hudson and Phil Nadel previously invested in True&Co
“What Jillian is alluding to is that Charles and Phil both previously invested in a broad startup called True&Co.”
Josh Muccio Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:09 #20 Harper Wilde
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel: Cannot justify $9M cap for Harper Wilde at $20k/month
“I can't justify paying, what was it, a nine million dollar cap when you're currently at 20,000 a month. And you know, for that reason alone it just doesn't work for me. So I'm gonna pass, but good luck.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 20:31 #20 Harper Wilde
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Nadel: Building a retail beverage brand requires too much capital and time
“She even said that it takes a long time to build a brand like this. And a long time equals a lot of money. And I'm not up for that kind of.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:18 #21 Metabrew
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Insight
Nadel: Per-App Telecom Models Inevitably Attract Margin-Eroding Power Users
“Over time, this kind of model tends to gravitate towards more power users, right? It's a great service and power users will gravitate towards it. And so the use case becomes more power users.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:40 #22 Investor FOMO: Lunar Wireless
Mar 3, 2025
Assertion Supported
Nadel, Hudson, and Manus finalize $125K investment in Lunar Wireless
“All of the investors have come through. They did their diligence and all of them have written checks. I'm so happy that they were able to do that. Really excited to be able to work with them. Yeah. Yeah. So, 25 from Phil, 50 from Charles, and 50 from Jillian.”
Hunter Rosenblum Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 28:38 #22 Investor FOMO: Lunar Wireless
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Nadel: Lunar Wireless Phones Will Mostly Serve as Spare Drawer Phones
“What concerns me is, is usage, because I see this as a phone that people will buy, put it in the drawer, and keep it in case they need it for a spare phone. Not have to worry about paying for it each month, which is great, but have it if they need it.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 10:34 #22 Investor FOMO: Lunar Wireless
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Phil Nadel passes on unGlue, calling it a feature not a product
“I just see it too much as a feature and not a product. I think ultimately I'm going to pass as well.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 14:56 #24 unGlue
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Phil Nadel predicts unGlue will exit at a scale too small for VCs
“I think you're going to have a successful business, and maybe a successful exit, but I think the scale of that will be relatively small from our perspectives, but maybe a great result for you.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 17:55 #24 unGlue
Mar 3, 2025
What-if
Phil Nadel: I would not have invested without key hire Eric
“And I'll tell you, I would not have said yes if he hadn't hired Eric already.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 22:08 #25 Rex
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Phil Nadel and Charles Hudson actively assist Rex's subsequent fundraising efforts
“Phil has been introducing us to other investors, like, ag investors that he knows, and Charles has taken a look at my deck and, you know, we're about to sit together and be like, here's everything wrong with your deck and how you should frame it for investors,…”
Amado Guloy Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 26:57 #25 Rex
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel offers a $250K investment in Rex Animal Health
“You know, I, I'm really intrigued by what I've heard and the progress that you've made, and I'd like to invest 250,000.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 17:15 #25 Rex
Mar 3, 2025
Disclosure
Rex Animal Health ingests farmer data to monitor livestock health trends
“Basically you have a vet tech or a farmer walk through their barn and there's hundreds if not thousands of animals. They're checking each and every stall and scoring every single animal On a respiratory score, and what's called a scour score, which is basicall…”
Amado Guloy Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:05 #25 Rex
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Phil Nadel passes on ShearShare citing a portfolio conflict
“Stylisted, which is one of my portfolio companies. I just worry about a little bit of a conflict, which I try to avoid at all costs in my portfolio. So I'm worried about some overlap in, in in focus there as well. So for those reasons, I'm going to pass.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:11 #29 Could This Be the Next Airbnb?
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Nadel: Boundless has huge lifetime value potential as a data play
“I see huge opportunities for lifetime LTV in this, both through additional sort of immigration services and wraparound services and other things that you can do with the data. It's a data play, and there's a lot of value there, and it's a data play, but it's a…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 16:35 #32 Is Immigration the Next Venture-Scale Business?
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Wang: Phil Nadel is coming in for $300k
“So he is coming in for 300.”
Xiao Wang Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 24:16 #32 Is Immigration the Next Venture-Scale Business?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel Passes on Tire Agent Citing $10M Cap and No Traction
“If there was some traction, if you were able to show real numbers and real progress, that makes a difference, and then compound that with, you know, what I consider to be a crazy valuation at a ten million dollar cap, I just think, you know, it, I can't get ex…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:43 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Nadel: $10M valuation cap is uncompetitive for $25K in monthly revenue
“Based on my experience and all the companies that we look at and invest in, that's not market. That's just not competitive with the deals that we see. A company doing 25,000 a month in revenue, you know, everything else being equal, a ten million cap is just w…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 10:26 #36 When Two Startups Love Each Other Very Much ...
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel offers $250K final check if Hostfully accepts $7M valuation cap
“If you can get the rest done at seven million cap or price round, then I would do it, but I'll still be the last check in.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:27 #36 When Two Startups Love Each Other Very Much ...
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Stefan Lobel Details How Bluffworks Ultimately Closed a $1.4 Million Round
“At the end of this, through our customers, through Phil Phil's syndicate on AngelList and through other angels, we raised 1.4. We have a 100,000 dollars left in the round.”
Stefan Lobel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 34:42 #39 This Pitch is Damn Near Perfect
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Nadel: Officially passes on investing in Shipsi post-show
“So so for all these reasons, I'm going to have to pass.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 24:49 #41 Can This Startup Help Retailers Take on Amazon?
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Nadel: Commits $300,000 to Shipsi on the show
“I'm in for 300,000.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:29 #41 Can This Startup Help Retailers Take on Amazon?
Mar 3, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Candee: 70% of Bounce traffic is organic; Google CAC is $12
“So on the consumer side, 70% of our traffic is organic search. We've also looked at Google AdWords. We could get customers for about 12 dollars there. The average transaction size is 15, and we share up to half of that with businesses.”
Cody Candee Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:24 #42 How Much Do You Trust Your Barista?
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Phil Nadel passes on Playven, citing founder's lack of urgency
“There's a lack of urgency that I'm not, as an investor, comfortable with, so I'm going to pass.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:26 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nadel: Playven only has 24 paying clubs after years of operating
“He's been doing this for a few years. He only has 24 clubs paying him.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:18 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Nadel: Passes on Svrf due to potential hardware expansion
“I don't want to invest in a hardware company. I don't, I like the search engine business and the API business. I don't want to be in the hardware business. And so that long-term vision doesn't align with what I would look for in an investment. So I'm going to …”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:35 #45 Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Nadel passes on Somewear over unpredictable consumer subscription revenue
“Based on that type of erratic revenue stream or unpredictable revenue stream for the consumer channel, I'm gonna pass.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:35 #46 Never Get Lost Again
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Insight
Nadel: Founders shouldn't pick markets with long sales cycles based on background
“That's a bad reason. You don't pick the market with a long sales cycle.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 20:58 #47 Can This Tiny Gadget Keep Kids in College?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Nadel passes on Atomos citing excessive capital intensity and early stage
“I mean, this is just way, way too early for me and too capital intensive and not a good fit for me. So I wish you all the best, but I'm going to pass on it.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:56 #48 Will This Space Startup Make It off the Ground?
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Blake's Seed Based raises $750k convertible note at $3M valuation cap
“So it's a three million dollar cap.”
Blake Sorensen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 16:48 #49 Nuts Can Kill. Are Seeds the Answer?
Mar 3, 2025 negative
What-if
Nadel: A brick-and-mortar retail plan would have triggered an immediate pass
“If he said he wanted to go brick and mortar retail, I'd be like, no way.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:30 #49 Nuts Can Kill. Are Seeds the Answer?
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Nadel: Prefers investing in applications using blockchain, not blockchain itself
“I don't want to necessarily invest in Blockchain. I want to invest in a company that has a cool application that happens to be using blockchain to enable it.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 22:21 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Manus retracts her pass on Cushion and offers to join syndicate
“But I would like to see the lead. So I'm going to hop on the fill on the mic, and maybe it's even the Howie wagon, which is, I'm not going to pass because I've learned so much more, and I've learned that you don't pass prematurely when some of the key parts, w…”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:52 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Nadel says he is likely to invest if Cushion finds a lead
“If the number is reasonable, the terms are reasonable, and it's a good lead investor, then I'm likely in.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:57 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Nadel: Cushion's valuation range is very high for pre-revenue
“The valuation sort of range that you're talking about is very high, especially for pre-revenue.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:42 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Phil Nadel passes on Copper Cow Coffee's current funding round
“I think I'd rather, you know, I'm passing for now, but I'd like to look at this in the next round.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 23:13 #54 Is Selling in Walmart a Good Thing?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Nadel: Copper Cow Coffee is a niche product with uncertain mainstream appeal
“I keep coming back to the fact that I see it as somewhat of a niche product in terms of either, you know, high-end, very high-end Vietnamese coffee. I don't know how, how mainstream it'll be.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:11 #54 Is Selling in Walmart a Good Thing?
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Nadel commits at least $300,000 to Monti Kids
“So I'm in for well, at least 300,000.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 18:54 #56 Shark Tank vs. The Pitch
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Nadel: Prop bet fantasy formats are easily replicated by competitors
“I feel the opposite way from Charles in that I don't feel that the format is enough of a differentiator, and I don't think it's that difficult for another company to either replicate it or to pivot themselves.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 14:28 #57 Where Losers Go To Win
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
What-if
Nadel: I would have passed if I knew ad revenue lacked traction
“If I had, during the pitch, if I had fully understood, if we had talked about and I understood that, you know, the advertising piece of it representing 60% of revenue had no traction yet, or none to speak of, then I would have either passed or pushed back on t…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:43 #58 Park Your Pooch Here
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Nadel: Offers DogSpot a $300,000 investment
“So I would like to invest as well. You know, I'm not sure what the final number will be, but it's usually 300,000.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 18:43 #58 Park Your Pooch Here
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Nadel passes on CultureForce, doubting its venture-scale potential
“I just have trouble getting really excited about it and trouble seeing it become, becoming a really large scale company. So for the reason I'm going to pass, but I really commend you on the journey that you've taken and your commitment to this business.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:04 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nadel: Subscription flight models will inevitably suffer adverse selection from super-users
“Ultimately, people who are traveling one or two times a month are going to say, eh, this isn't worth it. I think that this kind of pricing model lends itself to the super users over time. That's who's going to gravitate towards it, and the ones who aren't usin…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:45 #60 Is This the Amazon Prime of Airline Tickets?
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Structure Capital ultimately invested $350K in Shift alongside Phil Nadel's $100K
“Her 100,000 dollar commitment turned into a 350,000 dollar check from Structure Capital, and Phil put in a hundred K as well.”
Josh Muccio Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 20:21 From Startup Novice to Veteran
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel offers up to $250k for his syndicate in Feedback
“So either I'll invest 25 or 50,000 as an angel today, or I'd like 200 or two 50 to share with my syndicate.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 20:48 #62 Pivot or Die
Mar 3, 2025
Insight
Phil Nadel says most startups pivot too late out of desperation
“Most companies do it too late in the game when they're really desperate, and things are really failing, and they're like, out of money and everything else, then they're like, all right, let's pivot.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 17:22 #62 Pivot or Die
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Phil Nadel believes Samaritan operates too much like a non-profit to scale
“I don't mind investing in public benefit companies, but this just seems to be too much like a non-profit. I just, I, you know, I'm just having trouble with how this really scales to be a big company.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:31 #63 Can A Startup Solve Homelessness?
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zahar: Hykso's LOIs will turn into contracts within 4.5 months
“I think those will actually be done you know, I'd say six weeks after first shipment. So I'd say within the next four months and a half.”
Khalil Zahar Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:05 FightCamp: A Name Change, A Game Change
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Nadel: Offers $250K to Hykso at a $3M valuation cap
“Three million. I'll do two 50.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:03 FightCamp: A Name Change, A Game Change
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Nadel: Will invest in 4.5 months if LOIs convert to contracts
“In four and a half months, if there are contracts, I'm in even, you know, if it means a higher valuation at that point, because at this stage, I really like what you're doing.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:19 FightCamp: A Name Change, A Game Change
Mar 3, 2025
Disclosure
Zahar: Hykso raises $500K on $4M SAFE valuation cap
“500 K, and we raise under a safe cap at four million.”
Khalil Zahar Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 16:31 FightCamp: A Name Change, A Game Change
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Insight
Nadel: Pass on founders pricing valuations based on non-investor advice
“Anytime the answer to the question of where that valuation comes from is, people told us to price it at that amount, when those people aren't investing, anytime you hear that, that's a no.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 24:27 #64 Startup Sale! 80% Off
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Phil Nadel: WeDo is just a task management app for college kids
“I just think it's a task management app for college kids, and that's all it is right now today.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:36 #65 Wait, Your App Does What Exactly?
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel offers to invest $300,000 in User Interviews
“And for me, I obviously need to see what the valuation is to see what I'm investing in, but I'd like to invest 300,000.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:19 #66 Does Anyone Really Want Your Product?
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Phil Nadel invested $300,000 in User Interviews
“Yeah he invested 300,000.”
Dennis Meng Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 30:20 #66 Does Anyone Really Want Your Product?
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Nadel offers Hostfully $250,000 as final check in $2M round
“So what I would do is I'd invest two 50, As the final two 15 to two million dollar round. So you get the rest done, because I want to make sure you have that runway. If you can get the rest done at seven million cap or price round, then I would do it, but I'll…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:39 Fighting the 24/7 Startup Grind
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Nadel: A $10M cap is way too high for $25K monthly revenue
“Based on my experience and all the companies that we look at and invest in, that's not market. That's just not competitive with the deals that we see. A company doing 25,000 a month in revenue, you know, everything else being equal, a ten million cap is just w…”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:42 Fighting the 24/7 Startup Grind
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Nadel: Max valuation cap I would invest in Hostfully is $6M
“I would invest at five or even six, but I don't think I'd go beyond that.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 10:28 Fighting the 24/7 Startup Grind
Mar 3, 2025 positive
What-if
Nadel: Would not have invested in Rex without key executive hire
“And I'll tell you, I would not have said yes if he hadn't hired Eric already.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:13 I’ve Looked Death in the Eye
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Nadel offers to invest $250,000 in Rex Animal Health
“You know, I, I'm really intrigued by what I've heard and the progress that you've made, and I'd like to invest 250,000.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 14:49 I’ve Looked Death in the Eye
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel offers to invest in Boundless
“I really have a great feeling about you, and I just like your approach, and I'd like to invest.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:54 When You Grow Too Fast
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Phil Nadel invested nearly $350,000 in Boundless
“But Phil, he invested almost 350 K.”
Josh Muccio Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:36 When You Grow Too Fast
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Phil Nadel offers $500k in Earbuds at an $8M valuation cap
“I'll do a half a million at eight.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:37 #70 What Is Michael Phelps Jamming to Right Now?
Mar 3, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fox: Earbuds has roughly 5,000 MAUs during soft launch
“It varies, but plus or -5000.”
Jason Fox Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:49 #70 What Is Michael Phelps Jamming to Right Now?
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Muccio: Investors stalled and Phil Nadel passed on Earbuds
“Charles, Michael, and Jillian, they still haven't actually given Jason any money. And Phil, well, he already told Jason he's out.”
Josh Muccio Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 23:29 #70 What Is Michael Phelps Jamming to Right Now?
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Phil Nadel Passes Over Portfolio Conflict With Competitor Hire Me
“I do have a little bit of a portfolio conflict we're investors in a company called Hire Me, which is not they're not doing the, sort of, gig worker thing, but they're placing hourly workers in restaurants and similar venues, so it's a little too close for me, …”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:54 #81 Jillian to the Rescue
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Phil Nadel says he lost money as an early investor in Zirtual
“I was an early investor in Zirtual and didn't do well”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 14:33 #82 A Deal Too Perfect to Pass Up
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Opinion
Nadel: Who's Your Landlord cannot build a SaaS business charging $1/unit
“He can also make a business, I believe, out of a SaaS company, but not charging a dollar a unit a month.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 22:20 #85 Will Coronavirus Kill This Deal?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Nadel: Who's Your Landlord is a sponsorship business, not a SaaS company
“So you referred to your business as a SaaS business, but you're not a SaaS business. You're in the sponsorship business. You, you're generating a thousand dollars a month in recurring revenue from the SaaS business, but you've generated 200,000 dollars in two …”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:21 #85 Will Coronavirus Kill This Deal?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nadel: Who's Your Landlord's $1,000 MRR is too early to invest
“And also the fact that if you're a SaaS business, which you say you are, you know, you're at a thousand dollar MRR, which is great to start, but too early for us. So sort of for all those reasons, it's too early and I'm going to pass.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 20:55 #85 Will Coronavirus Kill This Deal?
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Insight
Nadel: Keeping two-sided platforms free accelerates scale and enables sponsorship revenue
“You know, both sides, if both sides are free, you'll get to scale more quickly, and that'll enable you to generate the leads, and to generate more sponsorship revenue, and those kinds of things. But you need scale.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:31 #85 Will Coronavirus Kill This Deal?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Nadel Passes on Spot On Over B2C Marketing Focus
“I'd be much more interested if you were focused strictly on the B to B. I'd love to see you doubling down on that and not the focus on direct B to C. So I think that for now I'm a pass.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 14:50 #87 Uber for Pets
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Insight
Phil Nadel argues third-party retail is not a viable standalone business
“Third party retail is not a business.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:32 How I Saved My Startup
Mar 4, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Nadel passes on RealKey until the unreleased product goes live
“It's just, it's, it concerns me that the product isn't ready yet, and that all customer acquisition is on hold for now, so I want to wait until, until the new product is live and we see some numbers.”
Phil Nadel Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 15:57 #97 Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?
Mar 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nadel: Small restaurants will struggle post-reopening due to capacity limits and fear
“Yeah, once they reopen, Then your capacity of 24 may go down to 12, and it's tough to get by when you only have seating of 12, but more so, I think there's going to be a trend where people are going to continue to be afraid to go into restaurants for some time…”
Phil Nadel Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 22:51 #90 How Startups Can Succeed in a Pandemic 2
Mar 4, 2025
Disclosure
Nadel: Many Forefront hardware portfolio companies shifted manufacturing out of China
“Our portfolio companies that, that sell hardware, many of them shifted their supply chain or their factory sources out of China when the tariffs went into effect you know, a while ago.”
Phil Nadel Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 16:13 #90 How Startups Can Succeed in a Pandemic 2
Mar 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Phil Nadel: Small restaurants will struggle as post-COVID dining fear persists
“So first, I think there's going to be a trend where people are going to continue to be afraid to go into restaurants for some time, and I think small restaurants are going to have a really tough time making it.”
Phil Nadel Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 11:49 #95 You Asked. Investors Answered. Now What?
Mar 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nadel: Tampax or o.b. can crush Aunt Flow on price
“I think that that's a better way to go, but then I'm worried about the competition, because a company like Tampax, or if they want the eco-solution OB, can crush her in terms of price.”
Phil Nadel Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 16:38 #96 A Test of Time
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Phil Nadel passes on The Pitch over conflict of interest concerns
“By investing, it feels almost like a conflict of interest for me, that, that I'm gonna, that hopefully if I'm still on the show, even though I don't invest, that that I'll feel that I would feel pressured, or I would have some pressure on me That I don't feel …”
Phil Nadel Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 38:07 #101 Josh Pitches The Pitch
Mar 4, 2025 neutral
Insight
Nadel: Packaged food is fundamentally a marketing business
“This is a marketing business. You have to be good at marketing or have someone who is.”
Phil Nadel Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 19:58 #105 Teffola: Granola Guy Approved
Mar 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nadel: Teffola will remain niche without redesigned packaging
“It's a niche product for now that will have a niche audience until... If she's able to transform the product or the packaging to really stand out in some way, until then, it's going to remain a niche product.”
Phil Nadel Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 19:21 #105 Teffola: Granola Guy Approved
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