Building a New Venture Firm: Brian Jacobs of Emergence Capital (Part 3)

SM: There was a piece of the services industry that is well known, which is consulting services. That is not what you have in mind when you say services. BJ: Correct. We are talking about technology companies that use their technology to provide a service and usually they are using a network to deliver that

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Building a New Venture Firm: Brian Jacobs of Emergence Capital (Part 2)

SM: Even so, 2002 was not a great time to start a new fund. BJ: No, it was a horrible time to do that! SM: Tell me more about that experience. BJ: I knew a few VCs who had tried to raise a new fund in 2002, and most of them gave up. They concluded

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Building a New Venture Firm: Brian Jacobs of Emergence Capital (Part 1)

Most Venture Capitalists that entrepreneurs work with these days have never been entrepreneurs themselves. They have not had to take substantial personal risks. They are used to cushy lifestyles, fat paychecks, and existing brands that their firms have built long before they came on board.