20VC: How to Raise a Venture Fund from Deck to First Meetings to Final Close, Why Venture is a Young Person's Game and Why Multi-Stage Funds Have Not Ruined Seed with Rob Go, Co-Founder @ Nextview
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch23 Jun 2023

20VC: How to Raise a Venture Fund from Deck to First Meetings to Final Close, Why Venture is a Young Person's Game and Why Multi-Stage Funds Have Not Ruined Seed with Rob Go, Co-Founder @ Nextview

Rob Go is a co-founder and Partner at NextView, one of the leading seed firms of the last decade with a portfolio including Attentive, Devoted Health, Whoop, and Grove Collaborative. Prior to co-founding NextView, Rob was an investor at Spark Capital and held product and product marketing roles at Ebay. He began his career as a consultant at The Parthenon Group.

In Today's Episode with Rob Go We Discuss:

1. Entry into the World of Venture:

  • How a cold call from a VC firm led to Rob entering the world of venture?
  • Why does Rob believe venture is a young person's game?
  • What does Rob know now that he wishes he had known when started in venture?

2. Preparing Docs for a Fundraise:

  • What docs should fund managers have ready before they start the raise?
  • How should they structure their data room?
  • Where do the majority of LPs spend their time, document-wise?
  • What are the single biggest mistakes emerging managers make preparing docs for a raise?

3. Meeting Your First LPs:

  • What is the best way for emerging managers to meet LPs for the first time?
  • Should they send the deck before or after the meeting?
  • What questions should emerging managers ask to qualify LPs in or out of a meeting?
  • What are some clear early signs that a first meeting went well?

4. Closing LPs: The Tips and Tricks:

  • How important is it for a fund to have an anchor?
  • How much of a fund should the anchor be?
  • Are there different qualities of anchor LPs?
  • Should managers ever sell part of their GP or give an LP part of the carry?
  • What can managers do to enforce a sense of urgency to get LPs over the line?
  • What are signs that an LP will not invest in the fund without rejecting you yet?
  • Should emerging managers impose a minimum check size on new LPs?

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20 VC 002: How to become a VC with Kris Jones

20 VC 002: How to become a VC with Kris Jones

In this session of The Twenty Minute VC, I'm so excited to have the opportunity to interview Kris Jones. Kris has enjoyed an amazing career in the technology industry, founding PepperJam, an internet marketing agency in 1999 and later selling it to Ebay in April of 2010. More recently, Kris has made his transition into the Venture Capital Industry through the founding of an early stage technology investment fund, KBJ Capital, which includes portfolio companies Highlighter.com, French Girls App, ReferLocal.com, LSEO.com and many more incredible companies. In this session you'll learn: Why Kris decided to make the transition from the Startup ecosystem to the world of Venture Capital. How did it feel for Kris, selling his company to Ebay? What was the most important lesson Kris learnt in the journey from having the idea for PepperJam to being acquired by Ebay? What is the key characteristic a Founder must have? What can an individual do to get employed in the Venture Capital industry. Kris is also a prolific writer here are some of his articles, you can check out! Forbes: 15 Steps to Set Your Company Up for a Successful M&A Mashable: 9 Ways Social Media Marketing Will Change in 2014 Citibank: How to Impress a Potential Investor

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20 VC 001: Guy Kawasaki of Apple, Motorola and AllTop.com

20 VC 001: Guy Kawasaki of Apple, Motorola and AllTop.com

Welcome to the 1st episode of The Twenty Minute VC, on today's show we have Guy Kawasaki, Guy is the Founding Partner of Garage Technology Ventures, a seed & early stage venture capital fund investing in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies. Previously, he was Chief Evangelist of Apple Inc and an advisor to the Motorala Business Unit of Google. Guy is also the author of many best selling books including the recent best seller, The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users. In this episode we delve into: Why Guy made the transition into the VC industry? What is the most important aspect for a startup to have? What drives Guy insane about startup founders today? What books Guy gives to aspiring entrepreneurs? What software & apps Guy cannot live without? We then finish on a quick fire round where we discover Guy's thoughts on the future of Amazon, Tesla and whether we really are in the midst of a tech bubble. All of the products mentioned in todays show can be found at www.thetwentyminutevc.com If you love the show, please do leave a review on the iTunes store and don't forget to subscribe!

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