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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bryce Roberts of OATV, Indie.vc (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: It’s a very particular and very narrow niche. The problem is that every entrepreneur somehow has been told that VC financing is entrepreneurship success. That’s a myth that’s dominating the entrepreneurship business. For 10 years, we’ve been trying to debunk that myth. We have celebrated bootstrapped entrepreneurs and reasonable growth consistently for many
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bryce Roberts of OATV, Indie.vc (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 Bryce Roberts was recorded in August 2016. Bryce Roberts, Managing Director, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and Founder, Indie.vc, discusses the issues with the venture capital financing model, and explored alternatives. Sramana Mitra: You have
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Sands of Costanoa Ventures (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I think this whole unicorn mania has been created by the sheer stupidity of the entrepreneurship media. They’re so driven by funding announcements. Every time somebody has a funding announcement, they run up lots of articles about the funding announcement. Entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that funding announcements are good. It’s not necessarily good. If
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: One thing that I find very annoying of what venture capital allows entrepreneurs to do is ignore fundamentals. I think there is a very bad habit in venture-funded companies of ignoring fundamentals and delivering services at rates that are not sustainable. What are your thoughts on that? Dave Hornik: It’s bad investing. All
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Sands of Costanoa Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: A few trends questions. How do you process the current investment climate where capital is moving further and further upstream? How does a seed investor mitigate the Series A gap? Statistically, there has been a lot of micro-VCs in the market. There’re a lot of pre-seed, seed, and pre-Series A investments but the
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 4)
Dave Hornik: In the venture-backed world, there have been very few apps that have turned into big interesting things. There are big games that have gotten very large. Those are tricky businesses because while I’m currently still obsessed with Candy Crush, eventually you get tired of the game and stop playing. I am actually am
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Sands of Costanoa Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What you’re saying is that you are open to doing even pre-seed investments? Greg Sands: Yes. They tend to be in more experienced founders or people that we’ve known for a longer period of time. At ACME and Alation, we’ve invested, effectively a company formation. Sramana Mitra: I think that is the trend.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Is domain knowledge a big part of your process? Dave Hornik: It’s a part. There are two founders in a company called WePay. I wrote a blog post on Venture Blog about this. It talked about getting credibility if you have none. If you are a 20-year-old who’s building a business in a
