Teli: Firm Twitter accounts are ineffective compared to personal VC branding
Sitar Teli · 20 VC: How To Say No Fast and Efficiently and Why UX Must Always Be At The Core Of What You Do with Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures · Dec 30, 2015 · at 24:03
Sitar Teli, Managing Partner at Connect Ventures, discusses how venture capitalists use social media.
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“A lot of them, so what I see a lot of is like VCs where the firm has a Twitter account, and I don't think that's very effective. Because I think for entrepreneurs, right, your relationship is with the investor, the specific person that you're going to be working with, not with the firm. So, so I think the VCs that use it really well are the ones who use it to build a personal brand, right?”
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