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Olteanu: Founders should expect more from VCs than just doing no harm
“Right now, many founders will tell you that if a VC is not harmful to the company, that's already a success. And I say the expectations should be higher from founders because while a VC cannot play the chess game for you and move the pieces. They have seen a l…”
Olteanu: 'Schrödinger's VCs' promise help but add no value post-investment
“Schrodinger's VC is what I call a VC who preaches a lot of help, especially before winning a deal. But then if you ask the founders, they will tell you they added no value.”
Farmer: SignalFire refuses to take board seats at the seed stage
“At the seed stage, we don't take board seats.”
Farmer: SignalFire almost always beats traditional seed funds head-to-head
“And as a result of that, we have an unbelievably high win rate against the top venture firms in the industry and almost always win head to head against the seed funds because typically we're competing with, you know, two guys and a dog and we're bringing an ar…”
Farmer: SignalFire operates more like Uber than a database like Mattermark
“We're using technology to enable discovery, competitive intelligence, contextualization, collaboration, and ultimately support of our portfolio companies. So, so we look more like Uber than we look like Mattermark in that sense.”
Farmer: SignalFire does not use data to evaluate founder quality
“I'd still believe in, you know, heavily in human loop systems, and so we're not trying to assess the quality of the founder, you know, with using data.”
SignalFire employs 17 staff, primarily engineers and data scientists
“Today we have 17 full-time people on the team, and we have more engineers and data scientists than any other function.”