Gangnam Style Venture Capitalist Inspires Canadian Entrepreneurs

This past week Startup Grind Toronto organized an evening with SoftBank Capital's Nikil Khalgatgi visiting from New York.

Khalgatgi is a venture capitalist with an edgea soft kind of edge. As an engineer and product guy turned VC, he focuses on seed and Series A opportunities in e-commerce, mobile, and social platforms.

Khalgatgiis not your typical VC. He is down to earth, friendly, and humorousin fact, he's straight up Gangnam. The description on his Twitter profile used to be "I'm a VC. And this is crazy. But here's my term sheet. Call me maybe?" and now for a few months has been "VC. Gangnam Style."

But it's not just his Twitter handle that makes him different. His first words of advice for the evening were, "timing is everything." He encouraged all startups to not blindly run to... [via Techvibes Blog]