Daniel Frese ๐Ÿ“ธ@danielfrese

Building @pexels ๐Ÿ“ธ with @canva. Make more startups.

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Joined July 2011
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Apple is now worth 50% more than all publicly listed companies in Germany together ๐Ÿ˜ฎ Damn ๐Ÿ˜…
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All funders are manually approved, highly accomplished, serious and able to support with serious money.
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Vetted entrepreneurs who are looking for an idea to pursue or who have had a similar insight can connect with the funders. The funders find interesting entrepreneurs to work with who can turn their ideas into reality.
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"If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal." Is this the best seed stage investing strategy (it might)? How do you define "credible"? angellist.com/blog/venture-rโ€ฆ

Startup Growth and Venture Returns: What We Found When We Analyzed Thousands of VC Deals

If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.

angellist.com
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When trying to decide whether an investment is good or not this framework is very helpful every time: 1/9
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If you can't find any and you don't know why you might be be the lucky one over all other investors then that should make you suspicious. 8/9
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In turn, if you can clearly see why you are the only one with this opportunity it should make you more confident. You need to know the real reason why you can buy the raw diamond cheaply while everyone else misjudges it's actual value. 9/9
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"Blindly invest in every credible deal" I always come back to this most surprising and contrarian finding of the AngelList Startup Growth and Venture Returns report for early seed stage investing. 1/13
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In short: setting a (low) threshold for when a deal is credible and then investing in all credible deals might generate more returns than trying hard to selectively invest in only the seemingly exceptional deals at the seed stage. 12/13
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More on the AngelList report from 2019 here: angel.co/blog/venture-returnโ€ฆ 13/13
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