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All right, well, I want to get through as many of your questions as we can, so we're just going to hop in and so the first question is from

Parshan would you have benefited from an angel list equivalent for venture capital in

other words if up-and-coming venture firms can find potential LPs from every corner of the

world instead of just SF here's a platform. In fact, actually Angelist is doing that and

I really

are actually helping a number of microphones get up and running. When we started our Fund 1, which was now, you know, three, almost three years ago,

they were actually not doing this or they were still in the planning stages, so we were a bit too early for that, but I do think that for anybody who's interested in potentially starting a microfund, that could be an interesting option.

Kate asks, what do you look for in a standout startup specifically?

How can I attract investors interested in what I do and who will find it rewarding to

invest in me besides providing raw numbers and projections.

So I think every investor is different unfortunately and so what I tend to gravitate towards

is very different from other investors.

But I would say just as a general thing, a lot of very early stage investors tend to either be in what I would call

team founders and the others team market.

Obviously you need to be able to convey both that you're an awesome team and also that you have an awesome market.

But people tend to feel fairly strongly about one

camp or the other. And for me, I tend to feel more strongly about team market, but

not in a way that you might think. I'm not looking for TAM calculations like

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