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20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness
- ▶ 33:33 Phin Barnes You know, at first round, over 70% of our limited partners are non-profit, and we, at our LP meetings, you start to understand the work that they do, and the impact of our work on their ability to achieve their goals. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:05 Phin Barnes Uh, which is the, the university initiative that I work on at first round with a team.
- ▶ 38:38 Harry Stebbings Likewise, I want to say a huge thank you to Rob, to Hayley, to Bill, and to Josh at first round.
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Should Let Everyone Rip Apart Their Business Idea, How To Construct Frameworks for Success & Why You Should Not Always Test Your MVP with Afton Vechery, Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over seven million dollars in funding from some of the leading players in venturing, including USV, First Round Capital, Mavron, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many wonderful things, both from Rebecca at USV and Finn at First Round, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 29:30 Harry Stebbings Again, you can follow her on Twitter, at Aftoon, and I do want to say a huge thank you again to Rebecca Caden at USV, and Finn Barnes at First Round, for the intro to Afton today.
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 27:15 Rebecca Kaden You look, you know, where first round is going there now,
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 4:24 Adam Goldberg And although I didn't start investing professionally until a couple of years ago, I was involved in a first rounds dorm room fund when I was at Stanford.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- ▶ 8:56 Leah Busque They tend not to stay on boards forever, and so I had great examples with Ann, with Rob Hayes at first round, with Steve Anderson at baseline, with Craig Shapiro at
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings To date, Lobb has raised close to thirty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the investing world, including Floodgate, Initialized, First Round, and most recently YC's Continuity Fund.
20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Just last week, they announced their seed round from some of the very best in the seed business, including First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Box Group, and SV Angel.
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 3:20 James Currier We have been very intrigued by, you know, why Combinator and Andreessen and First Round have done in terms of media, in terms of operational funds, in terms of structuring things in a programmatic way, and so we, we started exploring that…
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 7:19 Jonathan Abrams You know, when did Josh Koppelman start First Round Capital?
- ▶ 18:13 Jonathan Abrams Well, you may have five other competitors, and that one's backed by Greylock, and that one's a YC company, and that one is backed by, you know, SoftTech and First Round Capital.
20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- ▶ 21:09 Joey Zwillinger I do read the first round capitals blog pretty religiously as well.
20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Prior to Liquid Two, Michael was the co-founder of TalkBin, a YC alum that later sold to Google, and he was also an investment team partner at First Round's Dorm Room Fund.
- ▶ 8:38 Michael Ma I'd say first round poly is doing that.
20VC: The Biggest Indicators Of Success In Founding Teams, How To Balance Both Vision and Operations & Taking Money From "The Man At The Rug Store" with Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc
- ▶ 5:24 Mar Hershenson Accel, first round, Index, just really, really top name people.
20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- ▶ 24:04 Jason Brown First round capital blog. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Create FOMO For Investors, How To Manage VC Conversations & A Repeatable Process For Learning New Things with Anna Shedletsky, Founder & CEO @ Instrumental.ai
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings They have funding from some of the best in the business, including First Round Capital, and a huge thanks to Finn Barnes at First Round for the intro to Anna to 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:20 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Phil at first round for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 24:43 Anna Shedletsky I think that I'm going to give a plug to the first round review.
20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings With the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and First Round Capital.
20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 15:07 Roger Ehrenberg And look, I mean, one of my principal mentors, close friends, and most respect people I respect most in the industry, Josh Koppelman, has done this brilliantly at first round.
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 23:30 Ben Blumenfeld And then First Round has just wonderful content.
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
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Brooklyn Bridge, Charlie worked at the prestigious first round capital with the likes of Josh Koppelman and Union Square Ventures with the likes of Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger.
- ▶ 3:54 Charlie O'Donnell A couple years later, after trying my hand in entrepreneurship, I, I joined First Round Capital to help them open up their, their New York office, and spent two years doing, uh, investments for them, um, before I launched my own fund in…
20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now, Ryan is the founder and CEO of Flexport, the freight forwarder for the internet age, and Flexport recently raised a phenomenal sixty-five million dollar Series B from the likes of Founders Fund, First Round, Felicis, Bloomberg Beta,…
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 17:06 Chris Farmer In the case of Google Ventures, they're using a lot of data and the sort of network of people with inside the Google organization to try to bring in-house expertise to their portfolio, and we're doing this much more along those lines, or… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 4:14 Paul Martino You're one of the early limited partners in first round capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:42 Paul Martino In spite of their brand, to be able to get money to the new and innovative ones, so that when those new and innovative funds like First Round and Floodgate are now massively oversubscribed, they actually had a toehold in them, because they…
- ▶ 28:43 Harry Stebbings You mentioned first round a couple of times, he's obviously a leader in the space.
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 26:07 Clinton Foy We, we did that with some of our favorite, uh, co-investors and first round capital, uh, Chris Freilich and, um, a few other friends in the VR space.
20VC: The 3 Things LPs Want To See From VCs & Why The Table Stakes For VCs Is Higher Than Ever with Judith Elsea, Co-Founder @ Weathergage Capital
- ▶ 27:21 Judith Elsea Um, and of course, first round does it.
20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
- ▶ 7:18 Adam Leibsohn Uh, some guys at first round.
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 5:46 Alex Bangash So if you take, you know, if you take some of the best new funds that came in the last decade, say Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Lowercase Y Combinator, all of these firms
- ▶ 10:12 Alex Bangash So it's much more transparent, and that's why you have seen a number of funds in recent first round founders fund, um, but, but many being, being friends of entrepreneurs rather than, you know, having adversarial relationships, which was…
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, being in London, but apparently, that's a must if you're in New York, and Raiden raised funding from our friends at First Round, Lira Hippo, and the Pritzker Group, just to name a few.
- ▶ 18:11 Josh Udashkin And so, uh, it was led by first round capital and Lairr. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:46 Josh Udashkin It just so happened that, uh, Rob Hayes from first round happened to have been in New York, and that's really how we connected.
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 12:55 Andy Rachleff Mark Leslie wrote a tremendous article about this that he published on the first round, excuse me, the first round review on the importance of reinventing your business.
- ▶ 12:55 Andy Rachleff Mark Leslie wrote a tremendous article about this that he published on the first round, excuse me, the first round review on the importance of reinventing your business.
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings Fund investment in the incredible first round capital of whom we've had Rob Hayes on the show.
- ▶ 14:02 Chris Douvos But, you know, I think about first round, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:40 Chris Douvos And the funds that I did during that period, first round and floodgate, you know, IA out of New York and several others.
20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- ▶ 5:22 Harry Stebbings Potentially a fluffy business maybe, that might be incredibly harsh, and I'm so sorry for that, to kind of an incredible behemoth backed by the likes of Benchmark and First Round. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Harry Stebbings Uh, and so speaking of investors and your investors, benchmark and first round, just to, to name a few that I have to ask, how was the fundraising process for you and how did it differ with stage? 2 times in the scene
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 15:32 Jonathan Abrams Of course, they're, they're very, very big, but they are, are also pretty, pretty new and still, I think in some ways represent sort of like first run capital, a very entrepreneur, uh, sort of focused, uh, idea of, of what a VC firm should…
Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
- ▶ 22:18 Branko Cerny Yeah, um, I think the first round review has consistently some of the highest quality content.
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings So joining me, I'm thrilled to welcome Rob Hayes, partner at First Round Capital, where Rob was actually the man who opened up First Round's San Francisco office. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 Harry Stebbings And then take a wider view of first round and your development and future. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:08 Rob Hayes And I think that, you know, the first round, our mission is to, you know, serve the entrepreneurs that we work with. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:17 Harry Stebbings Uh, and, and kind of taking a step back now and talking about first round, uh, now these, this is the second, second part of the interview, and these are mostly from Satya at Homebrew. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:54 Harry Stebbings And then external of the first round partnership, who's influenced you most in the VC business and why?
- ▶ 24:51 Harry Stebbings And I'm gonna add one of my own, and that's first round review. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings And I want to give Niccolo credit here, because this episode was actually recorded pre-First Round Capital writing the Watney Rule for Startups article,
20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital
- ▶ 13:01 David Teten So I would highlight besides us and Google ventures, uh, and Andreessen Horowitz, first round capital, uh, OpenView does some work on this area.
20 VC 089: Eric Paley @ Founder Collective on Outliers, Inspirational Founders and Pro Rata
- ▶ 26:01 Eric Paley I mean, I think there are a lot of really good people in this business, but, you know, we, uh, we think very highly of First Round and Lear Ventures and Floodgate, and here in Boston, I think very highly of NextView, and, um, Steve…
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 11:53 Hussein Kanji There were some great, big established venture funds, but there weren't very many newer next generation funds, which if you look in California or in the U S right, you have first round capital, you have true ventures, you have floodgate,…
- ▶ 16:58 Hussein Kanji I, you know, you have to do this, but, you know, you go look at First Round Capital, which is based in Philadelphia, and Josh Koppelman's blog is
20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups
- ▶ 6:42 Marvin Liao I mean, like, you know, first round capital has, was an innovator in this.
- ▶ 23:10 Marvin Liao First-round Capitals, like, their first-round review is really, really good.
- ▶ 23:10 Marvin Liao First-round Capitals, like, their first-round review is really, really good.
20 VC 071: Pre-Seed Investing, Why Now Is The Best Time with Nicholas Chirls @ Notation Capital
- ▶ 8:43 Nicholas Chirls Folks like, uh, Thrive Capital, and Lyra Ventures, and, and First Ground, and folks that you, uh, might consider as traditional seed investors here in New York, the reality is that what they're doing, I, I wouldn't really consider seed… 2 times in the scene
FF 010: Becoming Europe's Hottest Startup with Carl Waldekranz, Co-Founder and CEO @ Tictail
- ▶ 23:34 Carl Waldekranz Uh, I, I think that the first round capital newsletter, the email is sent out. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Charlie was at First Round Capital, where he sourced the firm's first investments in single-platform 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:19 Harry Stebbings Um, so Charlie, you're the founder of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and you've worked at top VC firms, Union Square Ventures, First Round, but how did you make your start in the venture industry?
- ▶ 11:02 Charlie O'Donnell And so, you know, I wasn't new to venture, and I had gotten great experience by working for two of the best funds out there, Union Square and First Round.
- ▶ 13:31 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned Union Square and First Round. 3 times in the scene
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