Signal is hands down THE best tool for sourcing and managing investors! 🎉💸
We've been part of the private beta for half a year now and we saw the product grow and grow into a power-tool for CEOs and founders.
Go @jamescurrier and NFX team 💪🏼
@tzhongg@jamescurrier It's only for Gmail right now. We'll add other forms of email later, but much later. The % of people on Google now is really high. My "corporate" email is @nfx.com but it's powered by Gmail, so it's a gmail account.
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@daveambrose Dave, so I'd like to know why you feel that way. Our experience is that LinkedIn is now a graveyard of non-active, non-real relationships. It's crufted up. Whereas my email is where I'm active and we can see where people have real relationships, trusted relationships. We want this network to be tight and real. So we didn't want to add LinkedIn. Are we thinking about it incorrectly?
This is fantastic and really needed. A product suggestion that I'd have is being able to filter the fund size, as well as check size. As imho a $100k check from a $1bn fund is different to a $100k check from a $20m fund. I like to filter a list of micro vcs often when helping startups.
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@_jacksmith OK, that's on the list of todo's. Navigating the 100s of microVC's is an important challenge we want to tackle, so please keep the suggestions coming.
For founders, Signal is a simple tool to find the right investors, and find the strongest introduction to those investors. For investors, Signal is a means to appear atop the right lists and attract the right companies.
I created an account with Gmail, but then it kept saying I needed to add an account for a while - but it eventually got there
A couple other feature requests:
* filters for minimum and maximum - funds with a minimum of $100K but a max of $100M is a little weird
* de-dupe or collapse investors at the same fund (500 Startups, etc come up a lot)
I've messed with other tools and the Google sheets that circulate around and this is great. Thanks James and NFX!
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@sachinag Please keep the suggestions coming! We're writing them all down and putting them on the todo list!
Wow - I started building something similar for Bots (https://medium.com/@sivola/vcs-i...) as it's such a major problem to find the right investor, interested in your market and at your stage. Will definitely give a try to this - it seems very powerful and it's from James ;-).
(Found a little bug in the Add connection section: if you click on load more, previous selection is gone)
@sivola Oh, sorry about that. We'll look into it. Please keep the suggestions coming. We will add a "Bots" area of interest to Signal, and then investors can add themselves or better yet, you can add them. If you want, you can even send a list to us and we'll have people put it in...
I've been dreaming of this product @jamescurrier. I was able to claim my gmail but am having trouble claiming the other four pieces. I've tried it on chrome, safari, firefox and I came through the StrictlyVC newsletter. Hope that's helpful for the QA folks. Thanks for making this!
Remind me of early days of Angellist, when you still could easily connect to and e-mail investors.
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@jkaljundi you can't email investors through Signal. You still have to get a warm intro. We think that's better for founders and for investors. Do reduce noise (and increase signal, HA!) we think that founders should figure out who can give them a trusted, warm intro to an investor. And that's the primary function of the Signal tool today. Cold emails waste the time of both sides... typically. Not always... but typically.
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