Dixon: VC calendar is split roughly 50-50 between new deals and portfolio support
Chris Dixon · #5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital · Nov 13, 2015 · at 1:21
Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon explains the day-to-day schedule and task allocation of a venture capitalist.
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“I think, I guess I would divide my calendar somewhat between, I guess, two broad categories of things. One would be meeting with entrepreneurs who are starting companies and raising money. And coming to us to talk about potentially investing and then the other half of the time working with existing investments to try to help them, you know, everything from maybe they're raising more money or they're trying to recruit somebody or close a sale or some other kind of thing like that. So roughly I would say kind of half and half kind of looking for new things.”
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