E1071 Ask Jason: Black Lives Matter, Post-COVID tech hubs, Founder/VC disputes, bringing manufacturing back to the US, pre-selling SaaS products & more

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jason on CNBC: https://youtu.be/V6oqvDnuAgI

0:01 Jason intros today's questions
1:51 Aaron: Thoughts on Black Lives Matter?
9:06 Joe: How can startups play a role in bringing manufacturing back to the US?
14:46 Alex: Any tips on pre-selling a SaaS product?
17:38 Arthur: How should I prepare to be a great Syndicate member in the future? In a perfect world, what does the Syndicate become?
21:13 Matthew: You often talk about founders needing to be in SV in order to be close to the action. Post-COVID, how does this change? Do places like Sydney, Vancouver, or Beijing become "big-game" cities?
28:37 Charlie: Love when you mention on your blog post a pressing need with “Someone should build this!” What’s your latest “someone should build this?” right now?
30:04 Sergey: In "Angel", you suggest to invest about $5000 per deal to minimize the risk in the beginning. Will founders care to spend an hour to pitch such a small investor?
31:26 Ruud: How common are founder/VC disputes? Is there a ranking of VCs by how founder-friendly they are? Curious if this has gotten better or worse over time?
34:48 Alex: Is it advisable to look up competitors' investors and avoid them to prevent someone at the firm from sharing critical info with your competitor? Has that happened before, or is that too paranoid?
36:35 Kirk: What is your succession plan with Launch/TWiST and why? Also, what other syndicates do you admire and why?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's another ask, Jason, you guys are asking me a ton of questions in our new super secret
0:06.8	Slack room. Don't tell anybody, but if you go to this week at startups.com slash Slack,
0:11.6	you can join me and tens of thousands of other founders talking
0:16.1	about building companies and investing in them every day.
0:19.8	It is an awesome time and we have an Ask Jason chat room there where people ask me questions all day
0:25.2	and we take the best questions and we put them right here on this week and startups.
0:29.1	Today I give my perspective on Black Lives Matter if Sydney and Vancouver and other cities could become as big
0:35.8	as Silicon Valley post COVID-19.
0:39.2	I talk a little bit about why I think revenue sharing in an Instagram competitor needs to be
0:44.6	built right now and also we chime in on founder and VC disputes and how
0:51.0	sometimes that's a healthy thing and much much more it's a great episode and I
0:56.3	appreciate you all taking the time to listen to this podcast I hope everybody's
0:59.2	safe and I hope we get some justice out there in the world and yeah I just love you guys so much for
1:06.8	tuning into the podcast and I mean that from the bottom of my heart so stick with us.
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