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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Boston comes up
20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures
- ▶ 6:15 Kara Nortman It was a very sourcing-heavy firm, so a lot of what I was responsible for was actually cold-calling CEOs and sitting with magazines called, like, Storage World and Red Herring and things that many listeners may have never heard of, but I…
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 25:58 Scott Dorsey However, that connectivity, you know, into the tech ecosystem and down in Austin and in Boston and out in San Francisco, that's extraordinarily important as well.
20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 7:20 Rick Marini I'm originally from the Boston area, and anytime somebody wants to talk about their idea, they want you to sign an NDA, and you know, they're really secretive and closed, and when I came to Silicon Valley back in 2000, it was so different.
20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings She has a fund devoted purely to AI, and I'm delighted to welcome Rudina Sassari, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, a Boston AI-focused fund.
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 3:34 Justin Caldbeck So, you know, I, I started in venture, uh, in, uh, in early 2000 and, uh, five with, with Bain Capital Ventures up in Boston.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 4:19 Mamoon Hamid So I left Silicon Valley to go attend Harvard, uh, in Boston.
20VC: The Secret To Building Pattern Recognition, Why MBA Does Not Always Equal Great Founder & What Are The Right Reasons To Start A Company With Hardi Meybaum, General Partner @ Matrix Partners
- ▶ 3:38 Hardi Meybaum So fast forward a year after that conversation, we raised money from Matrix partners in, in Boston, and I moved from Boston, from Estonia to Boston, and then raised the seed round from Matrix. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:27 Hardi Meybaum Where I work closely here in, in, in our Boston office.
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 4:09 Ryan Sarver Yeah, so I, uh, you know, worked a few different startups in Boston. 2 times in the scene
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 13:32 Michael Kim Los Angeles, and we have some exposure to Boston, but to use an example, if you're the go-to seed fund in Cleveland, we are not likely to take a look, because there aren't that many larger VC funds that are based in Cleveland, so those…
20 VC FF 032: Jeff Seibert on Lessons From Being Acquired By Twitter & Box and Now Leading Twitter's Consumer Product
- ▶ 16:58 Jeff Seibert And one aspect of that is we had started Crashlytics in Boston.
- ▶ 17:34 Harry Stebbings And being in Boston, how did you find the funding process for Crashlytics? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
- ▶ 23:21 Fred Destin And do the, uh, eight hour road test drive, which is, you know, could we drive from Boston to Montreal together, or from London to the south of France, and not get bored in the car?
- ▶ 27:28 Fred Destin So, I, I'll tell you a funny story, but I was with one of Boston's most successful venture capitalists, and he said, you know, I'm too old and I'm too successful to keep saying no.
- ▶ 34:14 Harry Stebbings And then compare investing in Boston to London. 2 times in the scene