If you have been bootstrapping and think you are ready for investors, you need to learn how investors think. First, please study our free Bootstrapping course and Investor Introductions page. Then start looking for entrepreneur – investor fit. Today I introduce you to Bruce Cleveland. Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, is one of the early employees at
Sramana Mitra: Last question on trends, what do you make of unicorn mania? How do you parse it? How do you strategize given that it is a factor in the market right now? Bruce Cleveland: One of the reasons why we like to do early-stage investing is there’s a lot of capital that has been locked
Sramana Mitra: Our customer validation methodology is completely about customer immersion and getting as much feedback even before you write a line of code. What about geography? Are you investing only in Silicon Valley? Bruce Cleveland: Our partners come from different parts of the country. That makes it interesting. Bryan Stolle comes from Texas. He
Sramana Mitra: Our community’s work is with the very early stages. When you say you’re willing to do seed, can you elaborate? What’s happened in the seed ecosystem is that there are 500 to 600 micro VCs that have come into the business in the last five years or so. That seed ecosystem has fragmented
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Bruce Cleveland of Wildcat Venture Partners was recorded in January 2018. Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, is one of the early employees at Oracle, as well as a co-founder of Siebel