The Investors

Greg Huang at Xconomy has an interesting post on the need to bring Investors from the Bay Area to Seattle.  To his piece, we would add the following:

• We need more Angels and VCs who have been entrepreneurs in the past.  Seattle has an active investor community, but many of them didn’t come from startups.
• We do need more competition.  We need a much livelier community of entrepreneurs that are open about fund raising and competition on the investor side to create a marketplace for ideas and capital.
• With both Angels and VCs getting into higher levels of funding we need more earlier stage investments…

We are not a Seattle focused blog, but because we are located here we tend to notice these types of things.