Naval is one of the best seed investors I worked with: always prompt to follow up, and one of the best viral marketing experts around.
You know he’s brilliant because you’ve read his blog. You also know he’s hardworking – besides commercializing the web browser, he founded two, probably three, billion-dollar companies. But did you know that he’s extremely organized and reliable? I was shocked. Currently one of the top angel-investing brands in Silicon Valley.
The Hit Forge invests in early-stage social media web businesses. We help our companies with viral marketing, provide free incubation/office space in San Francisco, have a very clean, simple termsheet, and have blue-chip entrepreneurs as advisors and investors.
If he will pay for shares in your company, give him the shares. If he will take them for free, give him the shares. Just give him the shares. I did.