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As a seed round investor focused on YC startups, We are keen to list all jobs available at our portfolio startups, like SV Angel does - https://jobs.svangel.com/ However, it makes …

As an angel investor solely focused on Y Combinator with more than 100 startups under portfolio, my observation indicates being rejected by YC can be equally inspiring as being adm…

>>have invested in more than 60 startups in the past few years with a small seed fund (never lead investors), plus another 6 as an angel. May you share some notable investments? I …

>>Think of it as, in principle, a Twilio for real estate. Twilio is famous for its simplicity - With one line of code or two, you can send a message or make a call. In this case, m…

>>We are a platform to digitally handle real estate titles (to start!) leveraging the blockchain, offering an API for companies so that they can provide their services to homeowner…

>>We are now raising a seed round of $1M, at a $12M cap. Have you joined YC? If yes $12m cap can make sense. Otherwise, as other angel investors said, you need to reduce it to half…

Startup life is really hard - you will have to answer questions much harder than this every day if you do a startup. Therefore, based on my own first hand experience and observatio…

If Cruise is our first most notable investment, Zapier may be our second most notable investment. I say that because over the years, we saw Zapier is so rare in many aspects that w…

Like marriage, it is worse to marry a wrong person than stay single. Therefore, if you do not really trust your cofounder, don't let her become your cofounder because a wrong cofou…

Awesome! When you raise your next round keep me posted - zillionize at gmail dot com.

Congrats! Flock vs Slack reminds me of Zendesk vs Freshdesk. Any thought on fundraising? Investors would beg to get in :)

Did you check out The Macro - http://themacro.com/ ? Yes the info disclosed by YC for each startup is still limited but better than nothing in the before.

>>what constitutes that homework for you This is the homework we do: https://www.zillionize.com/data/ >>do you feel like you can complete that homework prior to demo day Yes the ti…

I am an investor and my experience is, if you have done enough homework about the startup you want to meet, twenty minutes shall be long enough to clarify a few key things so you c…

Have you thought to do everything by software only? If yes that may help you acquire much more customers.

"There is a tremendous amount of excitement about the top 1% of startups, but there are hundreds if not thousands more startups that will make their founders and investors rich." I…