Prashant Pansare prefers investing in teams with at least two co-founders
Prashant Pansare · 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 25 | Prashant Pansare, Co-Founder Eagle10 Ventures · Jul 22, 2019 · at 12:36
Prashant Pansare, co-founder of seed-stage fund Eagle10 Ventures, explains his criteria for evaluating founding teams and his reluctance to back solo founders.
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“So there is no fixed number of founders that we look for, but definitely a single founder I have seen, it's a little bit of challenge predominantly because from my own entrepreneurship journey, I've learned that a founder always needs another shoulder to cry on. It's in the crisis that founder really needs somebody else. So my personal preference is to have at least two co-founders in the team or three or four is also perfectly all right.”
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