Sramana Mitra: You are investing in risk and data-driven risk products. This domain requires people who are working in some domain-specific use cases around all that. Otherwise, you don’t really have insights into the problems to solve, right?
Sramana Mitra: Okay. And what is the investment thesis of Overlook Ventures?
Amir Kabir, Founding Partner at Overlook Ventures, discusses his new firm’s investment Thesis around Risk. In addition, we had a great discussion on what younger aspiring entrepreneurs should do: jump into entrepreneurship right away, or learn a domain in a job.
Sramana Mitra: If you get companies at that inception stage – MVP with not really any revenue, just discussions with the market, but good precise discussion with the market, what size checks are you willing to write?
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Sramana Mitra: So, what else are you looking at or investing in that are interesting case studies that we should discuss here that will trigger ideas and insights for the audience?
One frustrating observation remains with me. Entrepreneurs constantly come to us for assistance with their funding in situations where their chances of fundraising are ZERO. We can’t do anything to assist them, regardless of how strong our investor connections are. We can’t help startups get funding until they are fundable. It pains me to see
Entrepreneurship is not a career. It is a way of life. For me, this journey began as a graduate student at MIT in 1994. The world watched Netscape go public that spring, and the Internet swept over us like a virus. As I wrote my Masters thesis, I also wrote my first business plan. We