00:00 Marijus' background

03:25 What is easier - to be a founder or an investor?

05:30 How the founder mindset helps Marijus be a better investor

08:00 5 non-negotiables to make an investment decision

11:25 Founders - the one thing that matters

17:05 What makes Baltic founders stand out

21:35 Signal vs noise in startup building

22:55 Building in stealth vs public

23:50 Marijus' take on the bigger picture

About Marijus Andrijauskas:

- Partner at FIRSTPICK, an early stage venture capital fund focused on Baltic tech founders

- Serial founder, including Teamgate (acquired by Xenon Partners), Ventury.app

- 15Y experience in tech strategy, sales, marketing, business development and operations

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marijus-andrijauskas/

About 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).