Timestamps:

00:00 Intro and Marvin's track record

02:15 How has the tech and investing scene changed over years

03:55 Why angel investing?

05:20 Mistakes when angel investing

06:08 What makes CEE founders stand out?

07:00 Local vs. global maximum, and how to spot the latter

10:26 Marvin's biggest miss and what he learned from it

11:35 How to get started

15:05 How to think about risk & reward

16:35 Evaluating pre-seed vs seed deals

17:10 A few words of wisdom and advice

About Marvin Liao

- Invested in & worked with 463+ pre-seed & seed stage startups

- Previously a Partner at the most active global VC Fund 500 Startups

- Among investments: Aircall, ManyChat, Shippo, Eaze, Printify, Embroker, Indio (Acquired), Backlot Cars (Acquired)

- He serves on inv.committees and boards of several VC funds and mentors startups

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/marvinliao/

About BADideas.fund:

- We are an angel syndicate, providing early stage funding for CEE startups led by helpful founders and operators

- Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €1.8M in 15 startups, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.

- Our members are founders and operators who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M funding), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M funding), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).