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BAD to better at pitching to investors. Interview with Girts Graudins, ex-Twilio | BADideas.fund BADideas.fund

    • Investing

00:00 Girts' bio: Engineer to angel investor04:45 What Girts is looking for in a startup10:00 Top 3 red flags for investors20:40 The big startup ideas of tomorrow24:55 Where to find GirtsAbout Girts Graudins:- ex-Director, Engineering at Twilio- Built SDK Platform org, built and launched multiple products- Scaled Twilio Video 10x- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/girts/- Twitter: @girtisAbout BADideas.fund:BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 200+ members from 20 countries and counting.Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

00:00 Girts' bio: Engineer to angel investor04:45 What Girts is looking for in a startup10:00 Top 3 red flags for investors20:40 The big startup ideas of tomorrow24:55 Where to find GirtsAbout Girts Graudins:- ex-Director, Engineering at Twilio- Built SDK Platform org, built and launched multiple products- Scaled Twilio Video 10x- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/girts/- Twitter: @girtisAbout BADideas.fund:BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 200+ members from 20 countries and counting.Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

25 min