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An essay topic I'd find really interesting: A field guide to VC evaluation Your last essay was rather apt for where we're at right now (just getting into the
by wheels 18y ago
An essay topic I'd find really interesting: A field guide to VC evaluation
Your last essay was rather apt for where we're at right now (just getting into the fundraising waters), but terms like someone reputable are kind of hard to gauge -- especially in the somewhat inbred world of investment when you don't know who's buddies with whom and as such whose opinions are worthwhile. Here a lot of companies seem to be run by serial entrepreneurs, which often seem to be a little too buddied up with investors to side with first-timers when trying to shake out info about what dealing with them is like.
- pg 18y agoThat would be a short essay. You just have to judge whether they're smart and honest. The reason that's hard is not that you need special techniques to do it, but that it's hard to judge someone during a brief meeting when they're also judging you. We just tell YC founders to ask us, and that probably is the most effective way to judge a VC: ask people who know him.