Pawel Schapiro

Business Angel, Startup Advisor, VC. All things VC and Tech. Proud dad.

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@jansenniklas Nice! Event seems to be full by now. Is there a way to join remotely? Thx

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@chrija I recently found out that you can upload such an image directly in excel and it works nicely, importing the data.
Might be worth knowing :)

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@chrija God mode! Congrats, you guys are true champions of VC in Europe!

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Is it just me or did social media posts get much longer in recent weeks, especially on Linkedin? #ChatGPT #LinkedIn More noise.

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In the history of Venture Capital has anyone ever witnessed an Anti-Dilution Provision being executed? Is it happening in 2022? #vc #terms #legal

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https://t.co/FwiRdblVa3 mega deal in Healthcare announced today. Makes so much sense for $AMZN
I wonder what it means for European companies such as #AviMedical - I can't imagine a similar exit in Europe.

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@NicerInPerson @mikebutcher I'm only saying that I don't think it's that simple: operators= great ; career VCs = bad.
I agree that more diversity is important for the ecosystem and founder experience is on dimension of it.

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Unpopular opinion: The VC world isn't black & white. Not all recent operators make great long-term investors. X years of analyzing thousands of companies and investing actively might outweigh a specific founder experience. https://t.co/YkCPVW3A6S @mikebutcher

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@NicerInPerson @mikebutcher What are the chances of an operator having founded an outlier company vs an investor who has analyzed 1000s of companies? And even if you have been a unicorn founder, are you able to transfer these learnings to other founders in the future?

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@soundboy @mikebutcher Thanks, Ian. Much appreciated.
But I have to point out: It is from 2019 and only about the UK. The same source made a report on Iberia e.g. - 22% were entrepreneurs there before joining a VC. The 2nd largest group after consulting: https://t.co/B112nPR1ma

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@mikebutcher "O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"

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@mikebutcher I definitely appreciate more recent operators as investors. But is it really 10%? What is the source for this data? And the other "90%" are all bad investors?
The article feels like a press release more than a balanced report.

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

Public tech stocks: 📉

Venture growth: dead

YC: sorry, it’s $20-$25M cap/valuation minimum for our 3-person, 9 month old startup

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#Ukraine Weiß jemand, wo man in Deutschland Ukrainische Hryvnia (bar) in Euro umtauschen kann? Es scheint ein großes Problem für die Flüchtlinge zu sein.

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#redflagfriday When seed-stage companies have an "Investor Relations" person. #fundraising101

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@jekuer Interesting point indeed. Attribution is often tricky in such cases, agree. From a VC perspective being part of a big success story in almost any capacity would still trump the started-coding-at-12-brag, at least for me.

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#unpopularopinion
"Founder X started coding when she/he was 12" - OK, so what? I started running when I was 1.5 yrs old, I am still no Usain Bolt.

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@jekuer My point is: Doing anything for a long time is barely correlated with being extremely good at it. I'd rather look at achievements or results. E.g. "Coded an app for x and achieved 100k users at the age of 15" etc. It can also be small outcomes.