Jerry Neumann
10 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 30, 2018 by Jerry Neumann · across every show →
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Apr 30, 2018 bullish
Neumann: Top seed funds like USV outperform when market prices are low
“If you look at the best performing venture funds in history, at least seed stage, like things like USV, you will find that they started investing in a market where the market price was below the indicated discounted price. When the market is above where the in…”
Apr 30, 2018
Apr 30, 2018
Neumann tracks hundreds of enterprise software exits to set seed pricing
“As to determining price, the way that I keep close track of exits in the markets that I'm in, so I have a spreadsheet of hundreds of exits in enterprise software, and I kind of have a feel, having done all that research, for what the sweet spot for an exit is,…”
Apr 30, 2018
Neumann always re-invests if a portfolio company secures an outside lead
“So if they have a lead for the second round, I will, I think I have always invested. I don't tell them I always will, but I have always, but that means they have to convince somebody else that the company is worth investing in.”
Apr 30, 2018 positive
Apr 30, 2018 positive
Neumann: Josh Koppelman challenges founders effectively without creating defensiveness
“Because he had been an entrepreneur. He could challenge Founders on their premises from a base of experience, and also because when he did so, he didn't do it in a way that the founder would have a hard time, except he'd never made the founders defensive. He c…”
Apr 30, 2018
Apr 30, 2018 negative
Neumann rejects Jason Lemkin's view that VC is just packaging startups
“I don't look at it that way. If you say it that way, it makes it sound like you're trying to gild the lily, right? You're trying to sell them something that's not actually true. I do think that you need to know what the company needs to look like to raise more…”
Apr 30, 2018 negative
Neumann: Seed entry pricing matters despite Silicon Valley binary outcome beliefs
“I don't believe in the binary outcome that Silicon Valley has been sort of talking about for the past 10 years. You know, it doesn't matter what the entry price is because the outcome is either going to be huge or nothing. I think that even if that were true, …”