As part of the launch events for my new book, Carnival In The Cloud, today, we had a wonderful discussion with Jason Lemkin, Managing Director at Storm Ventures. Jason, prior to becoming a VC, was the CEO of EchoSign, a digital signature SaaS vendor that Adobe acquired some years back. You can read our Entrepreneur
The dynamics of e-commerce in China are very different from the US. Let’s dig in! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to your company and yourself. Tell us what you do and your background. We’ll take it from there.
Larry Augustin: Today, we have a virtual office for that. That virtual office is social media that sits around the person. Today, you may not be selling by physically sitting in that person’s office, but you may be sitting in their virtual office – what they are saying on Facebook or their resume on LinkedIn.
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There are a handful of angel investors in certain startup hubs who see all the good deals. The rest, even if they want to source fundable companies, can’t seem to find them. Then, the best deals get terribly competitive, hopelessly oversubscribed. So if you are an angel investor (or a small VC fund) looking to
Sramana Mitra: Does that mean that San Francisco and New York are your two major customer bases? Kyle Vucko: Not exactly. They’re part of our top 10. Because we are still looking for shorter term real estate, we’re looking simultaneously at 10 cities. Once we find the location that’s the right price, we’ll move in.
Sramana Mitra: Let me comment a little bit on what I’ve heard so far, and then we’ll double-click on a few things. Firstly, this notion of your competitors in the industry not focusing on the sales people and how the customers are facing people—this is the whole notion of social CRM that has come about.