Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures was recorded in November 2016. Hernan Kazah, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Kaszek Ventures, is one of the earliest VC firms to start investing in the Latin American market.
Sramana Mitra: What about geography? What’s your preference? Jake Seid: Proactively, I’m focused on Silicon Valley and outside of Silicon Valley opportunistically. Sramana Mitra: Talk about your current portfolio. What are the highlights? What have you invested in? How do you decide what you have chosen to invest in? Jake Seid: We look at great
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Jake Seid of Stone Bridge Ventures was recorded in November 2017. Jake Seid, Managing Director, Stone Bridge Ventures, talks about trends, AngelList Syndicates, ICOs and more. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Stone Bridge Ventures.
Sramana Mitra: People are scrambling. There are a lot of people in the industry who are also scrambling to put in little bits of money. By the time you get to raising Series A, you’ve raised six rounds of financing already. Jon Staenberg: I love to refer to the millennial problem. Pivoting, sometimes, is a
Sramana Mitra: You said earlier that you’re interested in Bitcoin. Can you talk a bit more about how you’re analyzing the Bitcoin situation? Bitcoin is not a capital-efficient area to invest in. It’s going to be expensive more often than not. How are you parsing the Bitcoin opportunity? Jon Staenberg: Let me step back for
Sramana Mitra: Have you selected where you want to play in this continuum? Jon Staenberg: I haven’t. Maybe it’s a bad strategy on my part to say I’m more opportunistic, but I don’t have a fund right now. I’m investing on my own or I’m investing with syndicates. I have a group of people I
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. The following interview with Jon Staenberg of Staenberg Venture Partners was recorded in November 2017. Jon Staenberg, Managing Partner at Staenberg Venture
Sramana Mitra: I’m asking a question where the entrepreneurs, by definition of the type of opportunity, would not be raising money from the big funds. In this case, the opportunity is not to act as a seeder. The opportunity is to fund some entrepreneurs and then exit straight away. Jonathan Lewy: I guess that depends