Anil Lakhani

Venture Partner, Crane Venture Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Aneel Lakhani is a Venture Partner at Crane Venture Partners, focusing on pre-seed and seed investments in enterprise infrastructure and developer tooling. He previously served as a research analyst covering cloud management at Gartner and led marketing at Honeycomb.io.

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Lakhani: Tech Analysts Emerged to Decode IBM's Opaque Market Position

“Analysts as we know them today really came about because there was a point in time in history where IBM was a firm that moved the markets the largest and there was no information about what IBM was doing outside of IBM and financial analysts couldn't get to th…”

Anil Lakhani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:17 a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations

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Lakhani: Startup Sales Teams Never Solely Control Enterprise Buying Criteria

“So if you as a startup sales team intend to set the criteria, then you better control all the means by which the customer gets their criteria. And that's not just you. It's never just you. Under no situation on earth will it be only you.”

Anil Lakhani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:45 a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations

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Lakhani: The Most Valuable Analyst Insights Never Appear on Paper

“They're talking to analysts because one thing you will learn when dealing with analysts is the most useful and important stuff you can get out of an analyst comes over the phone or in person, never on paper.”

Anil Lakhani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:09 a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations

Insight

Lakhani: Analysts Identify Bad Positioning Rather Than Creating Category Names

“Now, an analyst might not help you figure out what the right thing is or what the right category name is, but they'll definitely tell you what the wrong things are.”

Anil Lakhani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:52 a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations

Insight

Lakhani: Startups Should Run Analyst Relations Out of Product, Not PR

“In the very early stages, at the beginning, it should be run out of product. Because what you're really informing people about and getting feedback on is the product and its positioning and its world, you know, where it stands in the market. And then if you ge…”

Anil Lakhani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:41 a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations

Assertion Supported

Lakhani: Tech Analysts Emerged to Decode IBM's Opaque Market Position

Anil Lakhani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:17 a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations	Jan 2, 2019	5m

Anil Lakhani

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