Salomon Aiach
@_salomon_a
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investing in anything consumer with @ originsvc by day (Prev' @goldmansachs, @meta & @earlybirdVC). Chasing running 🏃🏽♂️ PR’s by night. I tweet as I think.
Paris, France
Joined October 2013
There is a nothing quite like the rage of a repeat founder that failed the first time. They have a revenge to take with themselves. My favorite kind.
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The more regular & on schedule you are with your investor updates; the more likely you are to succeed. It makes you accountable and accountability drives success. Writing this as I receive @ArielRenous Jan’ update 💪
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The key to pre-seed / seed investments is speed. Speed of access. Speed of investment decision. Speed of getting your allocation. Speed of wiring the money. Speed of helping founders post investment. It's funny to watch big corporates wanting - more like trying - to get into early-stage. My advice: If your organization is incapable of making an investment decision in 24h, outsource early-stage investments to an investment fund by becoming a LP.
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Lots of consumer tech investors are starting to look at consumer brick-and-mortar investments that can scale and can have a quick payback period (e.g. coffee shops☕️, wellness studios🧘♀️...) if you crack the payback period in multiple locations, it becomes a CAC / LTV play. Same as a consumer app. Only remaining question is sizeable exits (1bn+)
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@AngelList just published its fund benchmark not suprising that fundraising for 2021 and 2022 vintages is hard given the IRR vs. high interests rate
Our '24 State of U.S. Early-Stage Venture & Startups report is LIVE. Explore conclusive insights, like: - Seed valuations hit '22 peak, from $10M (’20) to $20M ('24) - DPI-to-TVPI ratio dropped from 16% ('19) to 11% ('24) - New AngelList Fund Benchmarks Take a look.👇
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Covid AI 😷 has just hit the western world and infected the stock market and the crypto market. #DeepSeek
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Funny how the busiest / most important people reply the fastest. @Bouazizalex spoke about the mindset of "why push it to later if you can do it now " at 20VC event in Paris last week. Same mentality. The NOW mentality.
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Who introduced you is more important than what you have to say.
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Facts.
Letting go of what you've done for years, for what you're meant to do for decades, will be the hardest but most important thing you ever do.
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There is a massive discrepancy between who the French institutional LPs think the real players are, and who the actual real players are. Funny to watch.
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The number of people running is increasing exponentially. The number of run clubs is also insanely increasing. The number of marathon finishers is at an ATH. Something is happening in that space, that can only be improved by AI and not disrupted.
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Give back. Always. Give back with kindness, intros, time, attention, money ... The stars always end up aligning when you do.
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seen at a Paris exhibition this morning "It's the craziest thing to want to be wise in a crazy world" -Erasme
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Thoughts and prayers to all the people affected in 🔥California ... 🙏
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Too many just “look for jobs” in VC. Our job is simple: 1/ convincing LPs to invest in the fund 2/ sourcing companies 3/ picking a handful of co’s to invest in 4/ servicing those co’s Think about your edge on one of those 4 pillars and build upon it.
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