Hey investors - question from the other side: when you’re looking to invest, what are the biggest components you look for?

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The team

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Team,customer demand/market, sales capability.

I recently evaluated a biz that had a great, experienced team with technical expertise, networks, and IP. What they didn’t have was a clear path to sales.

Great sales/marketing people are under-appreciated and hard to find. There is intense competition for our attention now, so i look for identified customers.

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The team can change at any minute - how can we diagnose and predict the team dynamics and potential?

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So, if the founder is the only member and has doing it all on his/her own and angel wouldn't consider them even after they do all the work and only have a few investors in the preseed?

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