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Guy Turner

Partner & Co-Founder, Hyde Park Venture Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Guy Turner co-founded Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners in 2011 to lead early-stage investments in tech and B2B software companies. He has managed investments in startups such as G2, Fixer, Upfront Healthcare, and Zipnosis, and writes about early-stage startup dynamics on his blog, vcwithme.co.

14statements → 1claims → 1claims resolved → 3.57/5average certainty → 2.14/5average debate potential → 4.6/5argument clarity · the sources → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 1 opinion · 10 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Guy argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Turner: Half of Hyde Park investments go to first-time founders
“I would say probably about half of our investments are our first time founders.”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 15:22 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.6 / 5 directness 4.9 · coherence 4.9 · precision 4.5 · compression 4.1

answered every one of 17 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

234 words/min while actually speaking · 42.2 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,130 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 3/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 65%

Everything Guy Turner said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Guy Turner: B2B product-market fit requires four sequential milestone steps
“So in the earliest stages of a startup, that's, can you get someone to pay for your product? And then it's, can you get more than one someone? So, Five, six, seven, 10, 15, a hundred customers, depending on your price point, to really prove, hey, you didn't ju…”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 5:22 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Opinion
Turner: B2B First Sales Do Not Guarantee Scalability
“I think in business-to-business software, that, that would be kind of a tough rule because we do see a lot of situations where a specific piece of software is developed for one customer with a pretty specific need, and that getting beyond that one customer to …”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 6:25 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Disclosure
Turner: Hyde Park avoids founding teams lacking a technical co-founder
“The one wrong way that we're pretty pretty conscious of is we typically will not invest in a founding team that does not have a strong technical co-founder on it.”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 14:48 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Guy Turner: Successful startups limit strategy testing to weeks or months
“The teams that we see being successful will test strategies, put a bound put a boundary on how long they're willing to spend on it without it being successful and then move on to the next thing. And that's measured in weeks and months in a successful startup, …”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 4:34 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Turner: Startups Should Always Raise Minimum 18 Months Runway
“So, eighteen-month runway is what we consider being the minimum that a startup should raise, regardless of stage whether it's a seed stage, or whether it's a series A or a series B,”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 7:16 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Guy Turner: Investors will add 33% more capital to double success odds
“Investors want you to be successful and are typically willing to put a third more money to work to double the chances of the company being successful.”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 9:02 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Turner: Startup hype exceeding performance harms future fundraising
“We see that particularly in financings when companies that at one point were very high on the hype curve, and as I like to say, where hype is really ahead of performance where they need to suddenly raise more money, and they actually go in front of investors, …”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 11:31 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Turner: Executive humility prevents hype from damaging startup reputation
“I think there's a way to attenuate the hype, which is by, you know, maintaining a personality of the executives that, that doesn't believe, believe their own press. In other words a company can have lots of hype about it. But if when the executives and CEOs an…”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 12:01 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Disclosure
Guy Turner: Sales cycles must be much shorter than funding cycles
“So our number one rule in, in startup sales, and when we evaluate a company, is that the sales cycle has to be much, much shorter than the funding cycle. And so, generally, for a company that, you know, is raising 18 to 24 months of runway, we don't like to se…”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 13:01 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Assertion Supported
Turner: Half of Hyde Park investments go to first-time founders
“I would say probably about half of our investments are our first time founders.”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 15:22 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Turner: Vague responses from VCs usually signal a rejection
“At the end of any meeting with a VC, you should be looking for next steps and commitment on those next steps. Most of the time, there won't be that kind of commitment. It'll be something like, let me talk to my partners. Or let me think about it, or things, th…”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 17:30 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Turner: VCs should ask permission before giving rejected founders feedback
“I shouldn't assume that someone wants my feedback, and probably no venture, no VC should and it's always best to ask for someone's permission to give them feedback”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 18:17 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Turner: Problem solving is the main transferable engineering skill to VC
“The part of engineering that's transferable to investing and both looking at investments and also managing in an investment portfolio is the problem solving part.”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 2:58 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Insight
Turner: Consulting work directly prepares venture capitalists for deal evaluation
“The consulting work was probably a little bit more transferable in the sense that, you know, as a consultant, you spend one to four months at a time looking at an industry and hopefully learning just enough with just enough of a different viewpoint than the co…”
Guy Turner Jul 22, 2015 ▶ 3:22 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners

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20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partner Jul 22, 2015 15m
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