What city do you live in?
Menlo Park, CA
Entrepreneurs can get referred to me through these people (I listen to these people)
The list of people we like to work with and whose instincts we trust is pretty long and should be easy to glean from our portfolio of investments and LinkedIn profile.
Referrals are *strongly* encouraged.
Representative investments
Twitter
digg
Solarwinds
Kongregate
Chegg
Smule
Modcloth
ReputationDefender
Demandforce
Egnyte
Investment criteria (Markets, Team, Stage, Location)
Looking for very early stage but companies with the potential to be large and meaningful if everything goes right.
How many seed stage investments do you expect to make in the next 12 months?
10
Typical seed stage investment amount
$500k-$1M
Who do you co-invest with?
Reid Hoffman
Ron Conway
Andreesseen Horowitz
Naval Ravikant
Aydin Senkut
Ariel Poler
Jeff Clavier
Larry Augustin
Eric Benhamou
Radar Partners
….lots more…too many to list here.
How do you like to add value beyond investing?
go-to-market.
helping the company recruit people.
helping the company raise VC money later from a good firm if that’s desired.
In your book, what does a seed stage company look like when you invest?
Generally the company has progressed beyond the idea phase and has run some experiments that can be shown to validate (and invalidate) a few early hypotheses.
Would you like to include anything else in your profile?
Our <a href="http://www.maplesinvestments.com/">Website</a>.
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