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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
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Sands of Costanoa Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a question in what you’re seeing. I’m completely with you and I’ve written extensively on this topic. The opportunity in AI is in applied AI. The unfair advantage is in the hands of people who have really deep domain knowledge in a particular domain where you apply the stack
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let me turn the question around. If somebody came to you with an idea, give us some insight into your process of how you analyze and frame the idea. We can do this for some of your investments that have turned out really well but when they came to you, that was not
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Sands of Costanoa Ventures (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 Greg Sands, Costanoa Ventures was recorded in December 2017. Greg Sands, Founder and Managing Director at Costanoa Ventures shares his investment focus. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about your investing focus. How big is the
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (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 Dave Hornik, August Capital was recorded in December 2014. Dave Hornik, General Partner, August Capital, as some of you may know, shocked the industry years ago by being the first VC to start blogging.
