Congrats Garry!! Curious who else is on the investment team? "We’re founders who are engineers, designers, and product people. "
It's just me, Alexis and Alina. :-)
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#52What percent of company do you expect in return. YC has a pretty deterministic formula. Do you have a similar formula? Or do you decide (or negotiate) on a case-by-case basis
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#53What percent of company do you expect in return. YC has a pretty deterministic formula. Do you have a similar formula? Or do you decide (or negotiate) on a case-by-case basis
It really varies based on the company, stage, market. Check size typically $500K to $1M. We typically try to be the biggest investor in someone's seed round, and when we invest, the founder knows their round will be closed soon and they can get back to work!
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#54This site needs to be recategorized https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/initialized.com
Thanks for this. Working on a fix.
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#55Hi HN! Happy to answer questions here, which is funny because this is where it all really started for me back in 2007 when I was first thinking of starting my first company. I started as an HN reader working at a friend's startup, applied to YC and got in, became a YC partner, and then an early stage investor. We're engineers and designers and product folks, and most investors aren't still (which is crazy, right?) so…
Hi Garry, Its inspiring to see you started here in 2007. I've never talked to investors before. What would be your advice, if I need to get started?
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#56Hi HN! Happy to answer questions here, which is funny because this is where it all really started for me back in 2007 when I was first thinking of starting my first company. I started as an HN reader working at a friend's startup, applied to YC and got in, became a YC partner, and then an early stage investor. We're engineers and designers and product folks, and most investors aren't still (which is crazy, right?) so…
Two quick questions: Of the investments Initialized has made, what percentage of them are non-YC alums? Of those, how did they connect with Initialized? Cold email, warm intro, etc?
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#57Dear Garry - is any VC really "founder friendly"? VCs expect founders to work for zero or minimal salary. Even a below-market salary is incredibly painful in any metro.
My question -- will VC-funded startups ever enter the realm of the non-wealthy and/or beyond bro's willing to bunk up in a studio apt?
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#58Just a quick note to say congrats to Garry and Alexis. Garry helped us out a ton at 7 cups. He said a startup is like a magnet. The more users you attract, the more powerful your magnet becomes. Alexis has also always been very encouraging and helpful in figuring out things that are not obvious. I highly recommend Initialized!
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#59Huge congrats Garry. Maybe we will find a way to work together in the future!
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#60Did you guys recycle a domain name? Blocked due to security concerns. You may need to work with the big vendors to get yourselves off the naughty list for actions taken by prior domain owners.
We finally got the initialized.com domain this year. What are you seeing? Let us know and we'll take care of it. Thanks for the note.
I wish I could be more helpful but I'm not aware of what vendor supplies my work proxy / site access rules: it's not part of the error message. I asked if the domain was parked for a while because it's flagged as potentially a placeholder domain.