How Do I Raise Money From an Angel Investor or Venture Capitalist?

hey everybody this is Gary vaynerchuk and I felt compelled to make this video predicated on the fact that because of uh the show that I'm doing right now the Ask Gary V show drock link it up little window you guys saw cool uh I've been getting a question over and over and over again and even though I've done 123 episodes of as of this taste uh taping I like that recording um uh I haven't really addressed this on the show because it's such a crazy question that I want to address as an individual video and that's what I'm doing right now the question is the following Gary how do I raise money from an angel investor and VC and this is happening this is an epidemic excuse me this is a real issue at hand hundreds of times a day Gary how do I do this and it's literally uh a kind of question that really marks the times where 99% of the entrepreneurs that I'm interacting with all of their behavior is predicated on the next round of money versus actually building a business so very simply my friends I'm going to answer and very honestly I'm doing this video for selfish means because every time I get this question a thousand a day I'm just going to point to this video as a matter of fact I get it asked so much this may be the most watched video I have in my career because so many goddamn people ask this question and I'm going to give you the answer the number one way to raise money from a VC and an angel investor is to build a good enough business that they all come to you that's right here's novel idea in 2015 why don't you build a profitable business that builds real value that has real customers that pay in whatever form that means business model whether it's a premium or an advertising or you sell stuff and why don't you build so much momentum and earned media and hype and leverage and power and why don't you have people actually emailing you asking you to have a meeting and asking you to actually take their money begging you to take not only their money their smart money because you're getting the best Angels super Angels VCS pounding your door because you're winning how about you actually execute and then drive the behavior backwards I think that's how you do it and I don't want to hear like oh like what if you have no money like you know live a life that's predicated on no money a lot of people live with no money get seven friends live in a God damn studio apartment live in your mom's basement find your partner coder build your damn app and hustle like that's how you raise money