Beisel: NextView writes an investment memo for every seed deal
David Beisel · 20VC: How To Design Investment Decision Making That Allows For Outliers, Why Personal Voice Computing Is The Next Big Platform & The Challenges That Could Prevent It with David Beisel, Founding Partner @ NextView Ventures · Aug 16, 2017 · at 5:41
David Beisel is a founding partner at NextView Ventures. He explains how NextView adapted Venrock's institutional investment memo process to every seed investment.
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“We actually, at NextView, write an investment memo for every single seed investment we make.”
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