1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The next question I have for you is a slightly broader question. Are you looking for unicorns? Taylor Greene: I think the short answer is yes. I’m always looking for unicorns. Historically, when you look at the math of venture capital, you need a unicorn in a fund in order to be a

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: In the thesis-driven situation, you are looking for a team that can execute on that thesis. In the opportunistic cases, they come to you with the ideas. If you like them and fit your world view, you would accept. Talk about a couple of ventures that you have invested in. Also just to

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me about the kinds of B2C ventures you like to invest in. Besides the ventures doing good element, is there other parameterization that you could put on your preferred investments? Taylor Greene: I try to simplify as much as possible. It’s my job to find outstanding entrepreneurs with breakthrough ideas who are

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (Part 2)

Taylor Greene: I think the major shift over the last six years since I’ve been doing this full-time is in the nomenclature. Pre-seed is really akin to what would have been a seed round or angel round 10 years ago. Typically that’s between $750,000 and a million dollars. Ten years ago when I was raising

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Taylor Greene was recorded in April 2019. Taylor Greene, Managing Director at Collaborative Fund, shares his firms’ investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you and to Collaborative

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181st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Taylor Greene, Collaborative Fund

Taylor Greene, Managing Director at Collaborative Fund, shares his firm’s investment thesis.