Naval Ravikant of Venture Hacks & The Hit Forge was the featured speaker at the August 28 Startup2Startup. Naval gave valuable advice to the audience of over 100 entrepreneurs on raising capital and negotiating term sheets. The feedback on Naval’s presentation was wildly positive, as Naval helped both first time and serial entrepreneurs peek into the black box that is venture capital.
(fyi: Naval’s slide presentation is below, and a video interview with Naval is included at the bottom)
The 10 key things that you should know when raising venture capital, according to Naval:
Our speaker for August is Naval Ravikant, an experienced entrepreneur and startup investor, and occasional contributor on the Venture Hacks blog (which he co-founded). Naval will speak about startup financing & term sheets, and present a Top 10 list of startup finance tips from the best of Venture Hacks.
Naval is currently an active investor in early-stage ecommerce and social media startups via his angel fund The Hit Forge. His areas of expertise include viral marketing, seo, monetization, general management, and (of course) fundraising.
Previously he was a co-founder or investor at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), Chainn, Hive7, and Vast.com; also an advisor to Bix.com, iPivot, and XFire, among others. Naval graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Computer Science and Economics.
Here’s a short video of Naval talking about what he looks for in startups, his perspective on social networks & viral marketing, and his tips for entrepreneurs on how to raise money:
Posted August 18th, 2008By Dave McClureNo Comments
