Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2018
In order to understand how to “get to yes” with a VC you first need to understand how VC partnerships make decisions and then you can understand how to increase your odds of closing a deal. VC Partnerships Start by understanding how many partners are at the firm you are approaching. Reciprocity is equally destructive.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 13, 2011
I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. But take prompts from the VC.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. I mentioned at the start that Kevin has taught me something about Venture Capital.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 3, 2009
This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. But the venture guys don’t make the calls on what the product / business guys do.
socalTECH
APRIL 24, 2015
We were also able to go to social media, and cross reference the data. Why aren't venture capitalists interested in sports? Derrick Oien: I have a couple of quotes from VCs, and my favorite one is that, for venture capital, sports is a $0 billion dollar industry. It's similar what we did at MP3.com,
socalTECH
APRIL 24, 2015
We were also able to go to social media, and cross reference the data. Why aren't venture capitalists interested in sports? Derrick Oien: I have a couple of quotes from VCs, and my favorite one is that, for venture capital, sports is a $0 billion dollar industry. It's similar what we did at MP3.com,
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. I love that. And it’s kind of true.
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