I'm proud to announce that Jeanne & I have invested in our latest venture:
Lunchbox [http://grablunchbox.com/?kid=ET07]. We've teamed up with good
[http://christinemeintjes.co.za] friends [http://iaanvn.com] of ours to make
this a reality and we're really excited about what the future holds.
But then
I've stated a couple of times in the last year that I'd love to get into the
angel investment space and I'm proud to announce that we've (I'm doing this with
my wife, Jeanne [http://twitter.com/jeanne_vos]) made our first investment in
Bella Vita Interiors [http://bvinteriors.co.
I'd add"it takes money to make money".
If you can't de-risk such an early stage startup, then we're basically talking
about gambling to some extent. Yes social proof works well and gut feel (based
on experience) works too, but many of these type of investments won't work out.
I
In this post
[http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/07/some-thoughts-on-the-seed-fund-phenomenon.html]
Fred Wilson goes on to explain that a company should first scale & gather
traction on seed funding before it goes after venture round funding. Whilst
WooThemes has never taken any outside funding (we’ve bootstrapped from the
So as I’ve mentioned before, I’m really keen to do some angel / seed investing
[http://adiirockstar.com/post/484312101/startups-anyone] (via iincubate, which
will also fall under the radiiate umbrella) in the future and as a result I’ve
been following quite a few influential peeps in that