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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cindy Padnos of Illuminate 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 Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures was recorded in September 2017. Cindy Padnos, Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures, discusses a topic that we’ve been highlighting recently: the need for multiple seed rounds as a
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bryce Roberts of OATV, Indie.vc (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How are the entrepreneurs receiving this alternate thinking? Bryce Roberts: There’re two trains of thought. In the predominant Silicon Valley culture, the response tends to be, “Why would we do that?” They’re very indoctrinated into the idea of selling equity and getting on that successive round of funding to ratchet up the valuation.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bryce Roberts of OATV, Indie.vc (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What denomination do you invest in and what stage? What do you require to see to want to invest? Bryce Roberts: For the first batch of companies we did, we had a pretty broad mandate. We were trying to figure out for whom this type of network and this type of resources made
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 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 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.
