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Charlie O'Donnell

10 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2015 by Charlie O'Donnell · said 7 times in 4 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Jun 8, 2015
Disclosure
Charlie O'Donnell was present for USV's Indeed investment and first Etsy meeting
“Although I was there when we invested in indeed and there for the first meeting when we met Rob Kalin and at Etsy.”
Charlie O'Donnell Jun 8, 2015 ▶ 14:55 20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
Jun 8, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures funds pre-seed founders at the PowerPoint stage
“I'm very early, so I'm often the first money in. I've funded Founders with ideas. I've funded PowerPoints. I've funded things coming out of hackathons things before their Indiegogo pre-sale takes off, so.”
Charlie O'Donnell Jun 8, 2015 ▶ 7:17 20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
Jun 8, 2015 positive
Insight
Aspiring VCs should master recruiting, PR, or customer acquisition
“Anybody who mastered the skill of either recruiting or PR or customer acquisition for startups can leverage that skill at a firm, especially as more and more firms are looking to build platforms that add value.”
Charlie O'Donnell Jun 8, 2015 ▶ 5:36 20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
Jun 8, 2015 negative
Insight
Short VC internships fail because deal vetting requires thousands of hours
“Being able to vet deals, I think, requires some amount of experience and just, you know, getting your 10,000 hours in looking at looking at startups. So I think it's really hard to just pop in somewhere for a couple of months and expect to be productive.”
Charlie O'Donnell Jun 8, 2015 ▶ 4:05 20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
Jun 8, 2015
Disclosure
Most of O'Donnell's hardware portfolio raised VC before launching pre-sales
“Three of the four hardware related companies I did raised VC before they went to pre-sale.”
Charlie O'Donnell Jun 8, 2015 ▶ 20:12 20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
Jun 8, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Charlie O'Donnell sourced First Round's early investments in GroupMe and SinglePlatform
“Prior to founding Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Charlie was at First Round Capital, where he sourced the firm's first investments in single-platform Sold to Constant Contact, and GroupMe, sold to Skype.”
Harry Stebbings Jun 8, 2015 ▶ 0:20 20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
Jan 2, 2017
Insight
O'Donnell: Venture investors must separate decision quality from outcome control
“It's important to separate decisions and outcomes. Hopefully, you make all good decisions, but you can't control the outcome, and that's sort of the humbling thing, is that you can check off every which box you come up with in terms of decision making and scre…”
Charlie O'Donnell Jan 2, 2017 ▶ 6:20 20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Jan 2, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
O'Donnell: The average tech M&A exit is $250 million, not $1 billion
“When you look at the average tech M&A transaction, the average is not a billion dollar exit. The average is something like more like two 50.”
Charlie O'Donnell Jan 2, 2017 ▶ 9:41 20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Jan 2, 2017 neutral
Insight
O'Donnell: A $15M fund needs $1B in portfolio value for 3x returns
“You have to create roughly about a billion dollars of total enterprise value to make a small fund like mine about a three-x fund”
Charlie O'Donnell Jan 2, 2017 ▶ 9:16 20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Jan 2, 2017 negative
Insight
O'Donnell: Assuming billion-dollar exits in venture fund modeling is poor analysis
“To me, it's not a good analysis and not a good plan if I expect my winners to be billion dollar outcome.”
Charlie O'Donnell Jan 2, 2017 ▶ 9:51 20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
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