Venture Hacks & The Angel Who Gives Founders The Upper-Hand – with Naval Ravikant
How does Naval Ravikant, co-founder of Venture Hacks and AngelList, help first-time entrepreneurs turn the funding process upside down so they gain the upper-hand over investors?
And why would he, an angel who invested in hits like Twitter, bother helping them?
And, most curiously, why would he sell a $9 ebook?!
Listen to the full interview and you’ll hear all that and more. As you can probably tell, I’m especially proud of this one, so don’t miss it.
Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks and a co-maintainer of AngelList. Previously I was a co-founder at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), and Vast.com (largest white-label classifieds marketplace). I’ve also advised Bix.com, iPivot, and XFire, among others, and invested in many companies, including Twitter, FourSquare, DocVerse (sold to Google), Mixer Labs (sold to Twitter), Jambool (Social Gold), SnapLogic, PlanCast, Stack Overflow, Heyzap, and Disqus.
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