Month: October 2015

5 Steps To Standing Out When You First Meet A VC

October 26, 2015

This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.

I often ask entrepreneurs I’m meeting for the first time to imagine that our meeting just ended and it was a great success from their point of view. Then I ask, “What made this such a great meeting for you?”

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Avoid The Bridge To Nowhere In Your Startup’s Funding Plan

October 7, 2015

This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.

I have seen several recent startup pitches covering different markets, having different technologies, and built with teams of differing calibers, all of which shared one unfortunate trait: The founders’ funding plans looked a lot like a Bridge to Nowhere.

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