Rob Moffat

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 22, 2015 by Rob Moffat · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Jun 22, 2015
Insight
Junior VCs must start as hunters before trading or farming deals
“So I think when you start in VC, you have to be a hunter because you've got nothing to trade with. Farming hasn't had any results yet. And so, yeah, I think you always start off as a hunter and you're kind of chasing what you think are interesting new sectors.”
Rob Moffat Jun 22, 2015 ▶ 7:56 20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital
Jun 22, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Zendesk disproved the $1,000/month minimum pricing rule for enterprise software
“Five years ago, it used to be the case that You enterprise products had to be something you could sell for at least a thousand dollars a month. Otherwise you couldn't sell them economically. And then Zendesk comes along and completely rips that apart.”
Rob Moffat Jun 22, 2015 ▶ 5:29 20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital
Jun 22, 2015
Insight
Moffat: Great VCs challenge assumptions rather than relying on pattern recognition
“In terms of finding interesting deals, I think the ability to keep challenging your assumptions. I think it's easy to get a VC to talk about pattern recognition and you have a bunch of sort of simple shortcuts in your brain on what a good entrepreneur should l…”
Rob Moffat Jun 22, 2015 ▶ 5:02 20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital
Jun 22, 2015 negative
Disclosure
Moffat: Forced deal trading with other VCs does not come naturally
“I don't think I'm a very good trader. That doesn't come naturally to me, this kind of idea of forced trading deals and maintaining a kind of a balance of payments with other VCs.”
Rob Moffat Jun 22, 2015 ▶ 9:47 20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital
Jun 22, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Portfolio support grows from 10% to 50% of a VC's time
“The longer you spend in VC, I've been doing it for six years now, and started off with probably 10% of my time on portfolio companies and now it's probably more like 50%,”
Rob Moffat Jun 22, 2015 ▶ 6:48 20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital
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