Moot’s Investors Revealed: Andreessen, Conway, Dixon, Schachter and Lerer(techcrunch.com)

20 pointsby adityavor 16 Jahren19 comments

Moot’s Investors Revealed: Andreessen, Conway, Dixon, Schachter and Lerer

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/17/moots-investors-revealed-andreessen-conway-dixon-schachter-and-lerer/

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Ron Conway uses the "copypasta" angel investment strategy, as anon would say.

ABrandtvor 16 Jahren

Poole will be sitting on the Digital Crowds Into Dollars panel along with Judy Hu, Global Executive Director Advertising & Branding, GE; Brian Pokorny, CEO, dailybooth; and Andrey Ternovskiy, CEO, Chatroulette.

Just curious if anyone could tell me why Andrey Ternovskiy would be sitting on a panel about (presumably) monetizing traffic. Chatroulette gained a lot of attention, but does he actually have any credentials to talk about revenue?

[deleted]vor 16 Jahren

joshuvor 16 Jahren

woot.

adityavor 16 Jahren

I'd ask you to tell us more about what Canv.as is going to be, however I'm worried that if you do someone will probably quote you out of context and make a story around it...

apuvor 16 Jahren

How do you find the time to do all of these angel deals while working full-time (presumably) at Google? Can you give a rough estimate of the amount of time/effort that goes into investing?

joshuvor 16 Jahren

i let other people lead the deals. it's not like i'm negotiating terms or anything. i meet a few times, i try to get a sense of the team (i have a bunch of specific things i am looking for) and a sense for the idea. so, it's not a lot of time up front. and i don't spend a lot of time bothering them after i've invested - i'm available as requested.

i still have plenty of time for xbox.

i'm tempted to write more about how/why/etc to angel but i'm not very successful, so i feel like i shouldn't talk yet.

sachinagvor 16 Jahren

On the contrary! We need more new angels. Your perspective would be most valuable.

I always thought that new angels start as followers, then become leaders. Is this your path, or are you happy being a follower for the forseeable future? I have a million questions like this for someone lucky enough to have the money to invest and the credibility for great deal flow.

joshuvor 16 Jahren

I don't know. Saying "no" is hard. I think it's a fun hobby but I can't do it full time.

Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1356140

apuvor 16 Jahren

Thanks!

_3ex7vor 16 Jahren

no its moot

daviduvor 16 Jahren

This is not a complete list of the investors as I understand it... I heard from someone else that they were also an investor and they are not listed in this list of names.

joshuvor 16 Jahren

I'm pretty sure it is. I'm the "someone else" if you heard it on hn.

daviduvor 16 Jahren

Nope, this person told me to my face... and we would all know his name (which is why I'm not naming him.)

Unless this person was just telling me Moot was pitching them, and not that they had invested, which is entirely possible (that I misheard him).

pyrevor 16 Jahren

According to: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/canvas-networks there are 5/10 investors 'unattributed.' According to the SEC filing there are 6 investors. TechCrunch just revealed 5 investors, so it seems like there is the possibility of somewhere between 1 and 5 unknown investors out there. Unless I'm reading the information wrong (which is more than likely).

joshuvor 16 Jahren

I've seen the paperwork.

Crunchbase has a lot of incorrect data.

Lots of funds write more than one check representing different subfunds. Often institutional investors and the vcs themselves are in different funds.

All the investors aside from me are funds (I am the only actual angel.)

[deleted]vor 16 Jahren

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milkshakesvor 16 Jahren

And they're hiring.

pyrevor 16 Jahren

Where do you see that?

milkshakesvor 16 Jahren

they've been quietly recruiting college engineers

thunkvor 16 Jahren

Fuck. Yeah. This makes me really happy.