Raising Wine Money
How does one go about getting money from a venture capital firm?
I have been at work in a venture capital firm for nearly ten years with one title or another. I have led or joined investments either independently or with VantagePoint Venture Partners in at least 20 companies. I have sat in at least a thousand presentations by entrepreneurs who are trying to get money.
(The math of 20 against a thousand sounds bad, but about 20% of the deals I looked at got money elsewhere.)
I still can’t figure out why one deal gets the interest of many investors while others languish. (Maybe I should change careers.)
