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Jon Staenberg

10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 7, 2015 by Jon Staenberg · across every show →

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May 7, 2015
Disclosure
Staenberg requires warm introductions or shared investor networks to review pitches
“If someone doesn't come to me through someone I know, Or has a, has an ecosystem of investors that I know, it's very hard for me to take a look at.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 18:51 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015
Assertion Partly supported
Staenberg: Active major VC funds have dropped from 3,000 to under 1,000
“There used to be close to 3000 major venture funds, and today that's in the hundreds. It's certainly below a thousand.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 14:07 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015 bullish
Disclosure
Staenberg recently invested in recipe app Kitchenbowl and fertility app Kindara
“Well, we talked a little bit about it. Kitchen bowl. Although I also just did a deal called Kindara, which is a mobile app. Yeah, Kindara, which is a women's mobile fertility app. It's both software and hardware.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 20:16 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Staenberg: AngelList and OurCrowd each raised over $100M in 2014
“I think in the last year, both of them had over a hundred million dollars raised through their vehicles.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 15:46 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015 positive
Disclosure
Staenberg invested in DocuSign and Avalara during later funding rounds
“I'm in DocuSign, which I did later in Avalara, Those are two Seattle companies later.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 10:39 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015
Assertion Contradicted
Jon Staenberg has invested in over 250 startups
“So it's probably over 250 startups at this point, just to update here.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 5:26 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015 bullish
Disclosure
Jon Staenberg discloses his personal investment in AngelList
“For full disclosure, I am an investor in AngelList.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 17:25 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015
Insight
Staenberg: Founders should reference check VCs with failed portfolio company founders
“The tell is asking other companies they've invested in, And not just the ones that have worked out, the ones that didn't work out.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 13:24 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015 negative
Insight
Staenberg: Early-stage pitch deck market size projections are made-up guesses
“I don't need to see those numbers because they're made up numbers anyway. They're guesses in many ways.”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 9:12 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
May 7, 2015 bearish
Disclosure
Staenberg missed the social media wave while running a wine startup
“That's why I, quite frankly, have probably missed most of what's happened in the whole social media and much of the consumer in the last couple years, partly because I was doing my own startup in the wine business, but also because a lot of what that was about…”
Jon Staenberg May 7, 2015 ▶ 7:55 20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
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