> One has crowdfunded a $1M seed, the other got a check from Andreessen Horowitz and the CTO of LinkedIn. Which one do you put your money in? If it's a consume

> One has crowdfunded a $1M seed, the other got a check from Andreessen Horowitz and the CTO of LinkedIn. Which one do you put your money in? If it's a consumer product, probably the former. It means they can market and hustle. If it's an enterprise or B2B product, probably the latter. Edit: with the caveat that I would only put my money in the former if they have shipped. There's a lot of vaporware in places like Kickstarter and crowdfunding markets. VCs and knowledgeable angels are more likely to be able to see through that (but as we've seen, they're not perfect either).