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.

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.

Nivi is rational, honest, and fearless. If you are a road, get underneath him. If you are money, get in his pocket. If you are a wall, get out of his way. I saw him take Venture Hacks from a random idea to the site and blog you see today, through sheer relentlessness. I’d back him on any thing, any day.

Mike has incredible drive, capability, and integrity. He is the most ethical person that I’ve met in Silicon Valley and I would have no hesitation whatsoever in doing business with him. I’ve seen his performance at Epinions, Symantec, and Bix, and he gets better and better every day.

It’s rare that you get to back someone who’s extremely like-able and equally capable. I’m lucky to be able to back just such an entrepreneur in Ed.

A very thoughtful and observant viral-marketing genius.

Brian is a young entrepreneur / investor with surprising sophistication. Too bad he’s serving time in LA, as he’d be a key part of the Silicon Valley entrepreneur network.

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.

I was an advisor at XFire when Mike was the CEO there. He’s a three-time repeat hitter, and does it by being scrappy and quick – something that’s easy to talk about but hard to pull off in practice.

In the yet-to-be-made movie about software engineer spies, Drew is the sleeper. He doesn’t seem geeky enough to be an engineer or aggressive enough to be an entrepreneur and then blam – his product nails you, right between the eyes. Disclaimer – I’ve only seen this from afar, and yes, I regret not being an investor.

Andre is the most entrepreneurial attorney that I know. He represents several companies that I work with and has turned down others since he is too busy. However, in every case, the level of detail that I’ve seen in his work is beyond what I’ve seen in any big-name firm.

I lost the bidding war to be an investor in Farbood’s company, and I’ll probably regret it. He’s smart, fearless, and does it with a smile. Every time I leveled a criticism at him, he smiled, nodded, disappeared for a week, and then nailed it.

Rob is a cheerful, visionary founder. This guy will keep starting companies until they run out of companies to start.

I’ve known Jim for years, from HotorNot to his new company. He is the single best web product designer that I know, period. Jim is an interaction artist, and will remove every single extraneous word or image on a page until only perfection remains. The web is his canvas.

Evan is the God of simple web products (the only kind that work).