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I recently spoke with Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder AngelList and Co-Maintainer Venture Hacks regarding the manner in which AngelList is changing the startup funding landscape. Naval describes why Silicon Valley will continue to be less of a dominant force in the startup universe over time and how tools like AngelList are facilitating the creation of entrepreneurial communities all over the world.
JG: Naval, what is the value proposition underlying AngelList?
Naval: Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. AngelList is the productization of that. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. We are productizing the raising of capital for startups.
You can watch my interview with Naval below or on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkuXQAvaKgY
JG: My venture firm, Rincon Venture Partners, recently invested in The Resumator, which we identified via AngelList. It is unlikely we otherwise would have become aware of The Resumator, as they are based in Pittsburgh. Are you finding that AngelList is an effective forum for startups located outside of traditional startup hotbeds or was our experience an anomaly?
Naval: It’s actually quite common. The core business we have built on is taking out-of-market startups and introducing them to investors. Late last year, there were more high-quality, seed-stage startups in New York than there was an Angel community to support them.
JG: Venture Hacks and AngelList are both great assets for the startup community. Other than giving back to the ecosystem, do you have plans to monetize your efforts beyond selling books?
Naval: The most important thing for an investor… is access to deals. When great companies really hit, all the investors want in and there isn’t enough room.
One of the things AngelList helps us do is raise our brand, have a pre-existing relationship with many, many entrepreneurs and give us access into great deals. We are not concerned in the short-term with making money. This is a ten year project…, we’re one and a half-years in and we have a long way to go.
Long-term, we may start investing in some of these companies as they go through. We are not taking the incubator approach…we would invest on the same terms along side the other investors and we would make sure to be a very, very small piece of the round and not to crowd out anybody.
This, of course, would be a recipe for bedlam if attempted with multitudes of autos trying to exit all at once after a performance (in theory, as many as five events with a combined audience of more than 8,500 people can let out at more or less the same time). So performance patrons will continue to pay as they enter, with actual human beings continuing to conduct or enable each transaction.
Chico said that cream-colored metal devices formally called “pedestals,” but known in the parking business as “ticket-spitters,” have been installed at each entrance driveway. Standing on newly installed islands beside each ticket-spitter will be an attendant who will insert one keying device into the machine if the transaction is going to be cash (with the attendant then taking the money and making change in the usual way), and another key if the driver wants to pay with a credit or debit card.
The driver will then swipe his or her card through the machine, and it will spit out a receipt ticket. Each time an attendant inserts a key, it will trigger software that records each transaction, giving the county accurate and easy-to-sift data for the number of vehicles and amount of money coming into its garage.
When events end, the exit gates will stay up and cars will leave freely. But Chico said patrons should hold onto the receipt tickets they get on the way in, because anyone wanting to leave early will find the exit bar down, and will need to feed the ticket into an automatic device to make it go up.
Waits to get into the garage are not expected to be longer, he said, because the additional time required to swipe credit cards and wait for an entrance bar to rise should be offset by drivers’ lessened need to fumble for cash or put away change.
While officials are confident the new system will work like a charm, Chico said, plans call for extra garage workers to be on hand for events during the new system's break-in period, answering questions and taking care of unexpected problems.
For those who don’t want to have anything to do with parking machines, there’s always valet parking at $23 a pop -- not counting tip. Or the subway -- $5 for an all-day pass -- which stops a couple of blocks downhill.
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Photo: A sign alerts Music Center garage users about its new automated system. Credit: Sherry Stern/Los Angeles Times
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