The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20 VC 057: The Investor Checklist with Nicolas Wittenborn, VC @ Point Nine Capital
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Show Notes
Did you know: The name Point Nine Capital originates from the 0.9 version of a product that is early but has great potential.
Nicolas Wittenborn is a VC at Point Nine Capital, one of the leading seed funds in Europe. Prior to Point Nine, Nicolas worked for the Team Europe Seed Fund. You can follow Nicolas' incredible blog here, which include my favourite ever blog post, outlining the exemplar pitch deck that startups should follow!
In Today's Episode You Will Learn:
How Nicolas made the move from iPhone sales arbitrage to VC analyst!!
How big does a market have to be to get VCs excited?
Do VCs have preferences with regards to teams? Technical or not? Multiple founders or not?
At the Seed stage what do VCs expect in the product itself?
What are the key metrics investors look for when viewing startups for the 1st time?
What are the different types of competition and how can founders determine whether they are a real threat?
How can startups and mobile apps in particular, grow organically in the early stages?
Items Mentioned in Today's Episode:
Nicolas' Fave Book: What Makes Sami Run?: Budd Schulberg
Nicolas Fave Newsletters: Benedict Evans Newsletter, Point Nine Newsletter
Nicolas' Most Recent Investment: Green Blender: Superfood Smoothie Ingredients Delivered To Your Door
As always you can follow Harry, Nicolas, The Twenty Minute VC and Point Nine Capital right here!
Similarly if you want to see Harry in a more colourful light, head over to Instagram for copious amount of mojitos!
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