Sramana Mitra: I will make a few comments to put it in perspective. We have all kinds of entrepreneurs here. People working on a smaller TAM opportunity have plenty of conviction. If you’re the market leader in a space that is a niche, you can have plenty of conviction and build a great business. You
Sramana Mitra: What do you think of unicorn mania? Are you chasing unicorns? What’s your analysis of the desire for unicorns? Gary Little: We don’t chase unicorns. You start with things that look like mules and we try to grow them to a unicorn. When we select companies, we try to find companies that have
Sramana Mitra: What about geography? Gary Little: We just have three partners now. Our target is never to have more than five partners. Since we’re early, our main task when we get that technical team is to help them recruit their Head of Sales, Head of Marketing. At some point, maybe Head of Product and
Sramana Mitra: What is your focus? B2B or B2C? Gary Little: Both. I focus more on the B2B. I have a partner Rebecca Lynn who is strong in FinTech and healthcare IT. I have a partner Paul Hsiao who’s strong in marketplaces. He led an investment which combined SaaS for designers with marketplaces to buy
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Gary Little of Canvas Ventures was recorded in March 2018. Gary Little, Co-founder at Canvas Ventures, discusses the various types of venture capital and the evolution of the industry into a rather