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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 9)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jeff: The one thing that we have going for us is that we do see so many patterns and so many deals and teams. We’ve done so many experiments – eighty-two, in my case, over six years – and seen what’s successful and what’s unsuccessful. Each deal
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder And Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you require the people to have senior executive experience? Jeff: No. Half of my entrepreneurs are first-time entrepreneurs. The youngest entrepreneur I’ve backed was nineteen, and he had already done three companies. I think the oldest entrepreneur I’ve backed was fifty-five.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you think about the return you would like to have over a certain period? Jeff: I don’t really think about the term in terms of time because you can’t force exits, you can’t precipitate things. You can’t say, “Hey, I want this performance over this
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: In the past twelve months, how many investments have you made? Jeff: In terms of new investments, not follow-ons, I did twelve. Irina: What was the average dollar amount that you invested? Jeff: Those were between $100,000 and $200,000.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder And Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jeff: Then I look at the product, the concept, is it differentiated? Have I seen ten or twenty versions of this thing in the past? Is it unique? How defensible is it? How replicable is it? Is it something that people are going to look at and
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder And Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: On average, from all sources, how many pitches do you receive a month? Jeff: It’s hundreds. It varies. I would say like five to ten a day on average. And then some days are busier so, it really depends. A lot of those sometimes aren’t qualified.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder And Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jeff: Sometimes people will catch my attention. Someone the other day reached me via Twitter. I looked at what he was doing. It was a 20-year-old kid who was trying to put a company together, so I gave him some advice around how to think about his
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many people work for the fund? Jeff: It’s just me. I am a workhorse. I have done eighty-two deals in the past six years on my own. And I do support my companies and I do help them and work with my CEOs despite the
