A lot of people misunderstand what a VC website is even for.
Nobody googles looking for VC websites, and any VC firm that wants SEO dealflow isn’t worth finding.
90% of VC firm website traffic is direct. There are three primary audiences: LPs, founders, and other VCs.
Your startup needs just 5 things to be successful:
- Solution to a painful problem
- Viable business model
- Great story to tell
- Team that executes
- Dark mode
Very few Women VCs in the 🌎
Even fewer in 🇮🇳
And a Woman GP in 🇮🇳 who has started her own fund?
I could count them on the fingers of🤚 Unicorns are easier to find🦄
Incredibly proud of becoming the Youngest Woman GP in India @Shift_vc 🚀 LFG!
https://t.co/Ee4gmXfYrg
I was a first-time founder when we started @fiddlerlabs, and we founded it with a big mission to build trust in AI.
This is a thread on the journey we went through in the last 3 years running the company and the lessons we learned. 🧵
No traditional VC firm was in the top 10 highest-spending investors in 2021.
Next: VC firm Sequoia led or co-led rounds with a total value of $7.7B, followed closely by Andreessen Horowitz with $7B.
VC is a constant game of context switching. A typical day as a VC looks like:
Founder call>investor call>deal diligence>internal task>content creation>portco support>sourcing
Blocking time to complete tasks is critical. For me, I ONLY schedule calls Tu-Th, Mo&Fri I’m heads down
It's a podcast Monday for the @inside Business Podcast crew and we might even have a special guest or 2 on today to talk Growth Hacks...... 👁️👄👁️ ........
This survey of 885 venture capitalists has lots of information, including what VCs do all day: mostly talking to folks! The average workweek was 55 hours, of which 23 was sourcing deals/networking, & most of the rest was working with portfolio companies. https://t.co/43Sh4HXgpO