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SEED-INVESTING

The best time to invest in a startup is before anyone else believes in it. That's where seed investing lives.

The first dollar into a startup carries more risk and more reward than any dollar that follows.

I wrote a $250,000 check for Instagram’s seed round. It’s the best quarter-million I’ll ever spend.

instagramreturnsRare interview, 2013

Seed investing is the purest form of venture capital. No metrics to hide behind. Just people and potential.

investingpurityIndustry event, 2019

Seed investing is about buying lottery tickets where you have read the research and know the odds are better than everyone thinks.

Seed investing is a game of being early and being right. You will be wrong a lot. The key is to be spectacularly right a few times.

portfolio-strategyriskVillage Global portfolio newsletter, 2022

We want Blume to be one of the first ports of call where they come to share their ideas, dreams and passion.

blume-venturesfoundersUnicorn Nest interview, 2020

I would rather back a founder ten years too early than a company that is already obvious.

convictionriskOn his early-stage investing style, 2017