Early Stage VC
topic on 2 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
7 statements about Early Stage VC, every show
McCabe: Early-Stage Venture Capital Has Become an Unprofitable Commodity
“One thing I will say is the amount of capital at an early stage available today suggests to me that that's gotta be a crappy end of the market for VCs. I mean, it's just a raw commodity now, early stage VC. I don't know how you make a return there.”
Ehrenberg: Very early stage artisanal venture capital will never be scalable
“That's the thing is very early artisanal VC is not scalable and it never will be. People have tried and they have failed.”
Early-stage VC requires local presence, while late-stage does not
“Unless you're there on the ground and you have teams on the ground, you won't be able to capture. And the earlier you go, the more important that is. Later stage, you actually can make investments from other locations because you're much more looking at the bu…”
Grantham: Foundation targets 70% allocation to early-stage venture capital
“And in our case, we can own early stage, and we are over 60%. We target 70%, early stage VC. And of that, we target up to a half in the green variety”
Toney: Product management playbooks directly mirror early-stage VC investing
“The Playbook for product management is very similar to early stage BC. The ability to understand a market and where opportunity might exist because of a problem. How many of those people or enterprises have that problem? What are the current solutions they're …”
Felser: Later-stage VCs are more transactional than early-stage investors
“Well, later, later stage VCs really are become more transactional, I think, than early stage VCs.”
Late-stage corporate experience provides no value for seed startups
“And vice versa, I think, for people who've worked in large private companies and have been with them through the IPO process, to be joining an early stage VC and expect to bring operating value to a seed stage startup is, is not relevant either.”