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Geoff Ralston's Intro - Startup Investor School Day 1

From Y Combinator · Published Jul 22, 2018 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

Geoff Ralston welcomes attendees to Y Combinator's first Startup Investor School, a MOOC with live stream and an in-person group in Mountain View. The course covers fundamentals of startup investing across multiple days, with lectures and Q&A, aiming to create better angel/seed investors.

Key insights

  • Angel and seed investors are “the first money in” and critical for startups to become scalable companies.
  • YC is self-interested: more great angel investors benefit YC companies, and they hope attendees will invest in those companies.
  • Example of venture investing success: George Doriot’s ARDC made a $70,000 seed investment in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 that returned $35 million.

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