Zach Coelius
7 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 8, 2022 by Zach Coelius · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Sep 8, 2022 negative
Zach Coelius: Founders should avoid venture partners lacking deep domain expertise
“Whenever I think about a venture partner, it's all about the expertise. If they have a deep expertise, super powerful, awesome. But if they don't, I wouldn't waste your time. They just, they're, it's going to be very challenging for them to get a deal through …”
Sep 8, 2022
Zach Coelius: Startups need a repeatable soundbite to survive VC telephone
“So you go to the associate, and you're like, this is what our company does, and you have one sentence, and you describe it. Now imagine that associate is going to go tell the partner that, and they maybe are going to garble it and jumble it on the way, and the…”
Sep 8, 2022 bearish
Zach Coelius: Venture fundraising difficulty is returning to 2008 levels
“And 12 months ago, you could have gotten a term sheet a week after you got, you walked in that door. Now it's going to be a much longer, much harder, much more arduous fundraising process, more similar to what we saw two or three years ago. Certainly what we s…”
Sep 8, 2022 negative
Zach Coelius: Founders should choose unaffiliated angel money over venture scouts
“Because if I had to choose between taking scout money Versus taking unaffiliated money. I would always take the unaffiliated money rather than taking the unnecessary signaling risk when you work with one of these firms, but without having them deeply involved.”
Sep 8, 2022
Zach Coelius: The best portfolio companies consistently write the best investor updates
“There's this weird thing that I've seen is that my best companies always have the best investor updates and my worst companies always have the worst updates. I don't know what it is, but it always seems to work out to be true.”
Sep 8, 2022 negative
Zach Coelius: Hedge fund reneged on a $50M term sheet before closing
“We went out to all the VC firms, hedge funds, the usual late stage check writers, and a hedge fund came in. They're gonna put in fifty million dollars at a four hundred million dollar post... It's supposed to close on a Friday. On Thursday, the hedge fund's li…”
Sep 8, 2022
Zach Coelius: Investor back-channeling is as important as the founder pitch
“And so you'll often find that like the back channel that happens behind the scenes where different investors and different angels and different
It spins in your cap table.
Talk to the next round investors is just as important as what you say when you're at the…”