MZ Zaveri
6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 29, 2017 by MZ Zaveri · across every show →
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May 29, 2017 positive
Kleiner Perkins leverages dual venture and growth funds to defer risky deals
“We're very fortunate where we have two funds within one firm, and, you know, we invest across the stages, so If we, on the venture side, feel something's just not clicking here, and we think there's an, you know, excess, you know, there is some weird form of r…”
May 29, 2017 neutral
May 29, 2017 neutral
Zaveri: Most startup financings do not involve multiple competitive term sheets
“You know, not in reality is not most financings, the most financings are probably not, you know, sort of like 10, 50, 10 plus, like, you know, eight to 10 term sheets in, in motion. Most financings take time, you know, you want to get to know each other. There…”
May 29, 2017
Zaveri: VC operational help works faster in enterprise than consumer startups
“On the enterprise side where you can do customer introductions, maybe add value to the top line revenue side. I'd say even on the consumer side, there's a lot one can do, but it's probably much more explicit or sort of much more, you know, you can realize it s…”
May 29, 2017
Zaveri: Out-raising competitors starves rivals and yields a distribution advantage
“Particularly sort of in sort of markets where there might be four or five competitors, if one can raise more than the others, you can suck out, suck the oxygen out of the room and have an advantage on customer acquisition and distribution in general.”
May 29, 2017 negative
Zaveri: Dismissing founders or ideas as just a feature is dangerous
“I'd say, like, huge market, and then the other pet, you know, pet peeve is, oh, this is a feature or something like that, right? It's like, you know, companies evolve and change, and I'd say there might be sort of folks that may sort of poorly phrase things, a…”