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20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
- ▶ 19:28 Alex Mather I mean, Michael Horvath, the founder of Strava, was our first check, but it was a smaller check, and then the next check was Charles Hudson at Precursor, and
20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings As I said, a very unique firm making both direct investments and fund investments, and they've invested in the likes of Precursor, Bold Start, Female Founders Fund, and Workbench on the fund side, and then Play VS, Replicated, and Starseat…
- ▶ 2:10 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things, both from Beezer at Sapphire and from Charles at Precursor.
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 35:27 Sarah Kunst I was like, nope, I'm in, and so, you know, I was the first check-in, and then after me, people like Precursor invested,
20VC: Why Most Founders Do Not Structure Their Fundraise Correctly, The Pros Of Having An MBA As A Startup Founder & How To Manage The Psychology Of Being CEO and Overcome Self Doubt with Iman Abuzeid, Founder & CEO @ Incredible Health
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings From some friends of the show, including NFX, Andreessen, Charles Hudson at Precursor, and Obvious Ventures, to name a few.
- ▶ 9:19 Iman Abuzeid So my lead investor for the seed round is actually James Joaquin at Obvious Ventures, and James Currier and NFX participated, so Charles Hudson at Precursor, and then the Series A was led by Jeff Jordan and Andreessen Horowitz.
20VC: Clearbanc's Michele Romanow on Why 40% of VC $ Raised Today Goes To Google and Facebook, How To Create A Financing Mechanism For The Repeatable Parts Of Your Business & Why We Need To Stop Celebrating Fundraises
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings To fund these ambitious plans, they have backing from some of the best in the business, including Founders Fund, Santee at Emergent, Social Capital, Precursor Ventures, and Y Combinator, just to name a few.
20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 5:27 Andy McLoughlin Around the end of 20 14, I was thinking about doing something else, and Charles Hudson, who was Jeff's former partner, who's now at Precursor Ventures, doing his own thing there, and I were out having a couple of beers and a pizza, and he…
20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 23:10 Brian Garrett It's a San Francisco Bay Area company, four and a half million dollar round announced in December with our friends at ENIAC, Precursor, and SV Angel.
20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
- ▶ 2:53 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Charles at Precursor and your wonderful partner Kirsten for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Yuri.
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- ▶ 16:29 Harry Stebbings We recently had Charles Hudson of Precursor on the show and Nick Charles of Notation.
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Charles is the managing partner with Precursor Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on first check investments in strong teams developing innovative hardware and software products and services. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11 Harry Stebbings But now it's time to head into the show, and I'm so thrilled to welcome Charles Hudson, managing partner at Precursor Ventures.
- ▶ 2:39 Harry Stebbings Uh, now I'd love to start by hearing a little about you and how you came from the world of entrepreneurship to now being managing partner at Precursor.
- ▶ 5:40 Harry Stebbings Going back to now, you're, you're managing partner role at Precursor, and we mentioned the changing kind of evolution of the venture environment.
- ▶ 8:10 Harry Stebbings Now, naturally, I disagree with him, but I'd love to hear what you think, and why he's wrong on this one, and what attracted you to leaving SoftTech for Precursor.
- ▶ 17:57 Harry Stebbings And I'm really intrigued then to hear how the fundraising process for you was with precursor as a solo GP.
- ▶ 23:06 Harry Stebbings And then what does success look like for you with Precursor? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:10 Harry Stebbings It's been absolutely fantastic to hear yours and Precursor's journey. 2 times in the scene