Danny Rimer: Index Ventures Lacks Top-of-Mind West Coast Entrepreneur Mindshare
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Danny Rimer, partner at Index Ventures, candidly discusses the challenges Index faces establishing its brand presence in Silicon Valley relative to incumbent West Coast venture capital firms.
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“So the big challenges then are still challenges that we have today, which is we have not the type of mindshare with entrepreneurs that we'd like to have on the West Coast, that we're not the first necessarily the first name or venture firm that you think of when you start a company in the enterprise SaaS Or in the consumer space.”
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