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Responding anonymously to show there's no incentive to give praise. They led our (largish) seed round. Had a slightly negative experience with one partner, but
by ffceo 11y ago
Responding anonymously to show there's no incentive to give praise. They led our (largish) seed round.
Had a slightly negative experience with one partner, but the median person we worked with beat most firms we talked to in first principles thinking by quite a margin. They were all very bright and had a wide range of knowledge.
They were far less interested in "who else is in" and more interested in your analysis of your business from basic building blocks.
When we were doing due diligence on them, the main "complaint" we heard from people who had raised from them is that it's hard to read their judgement. They may seem bearish on you then invest last minute or the opposite. Most people had great things to say though.
Hope this is helpful for anyone considering talking to them.
- RateOurInvestor 11y agoHi ffceo, Thanks a lot for your comment on FF. Feedbacks on investors are important for entrepreneurs, but unfortunately hard to find. I know too many entrepreneurs who spent too long time chasing investors who are unresponsive, unhelpful, or worst ("zombie investors"). The comments from you and nickpinkston above actually inspired me today to put together a little project called "Rate Our Investor" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378769. It is a crowdsourced spreadsheet that collects entrepreneurs' feedback on investors. Hopefully you don't mind the plug =) Thanks again for the inspiration!