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The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives with Brian Hollins

"It Takes a Village" - From Techstars to Launching The Fund with Jenny Fielding

Mar 23, 2022
24:47

Jenny Feilding, General Partner at The Fund, Adjunct professor at Columbia, and entrepreneur joins us on the Road Untraveled this week. Jenny is a pre-seed investor and mentor to hundreds of founders around the world. She is a 2x entrepreneur herself and knows how challenging it is to build great products, inspire a team and keep the lights on. She has helped start-ups such as Latch (LTCH), Chainalysis, Tempo Automation, Alloy, Headway, Supergreat, and many more. 


Key Takeaways: 

  • The best investors focus on building community authentically and rolling up their sleeves to help mentor the next great entrepreneurs, VC's, and companies. 
  • The many to many model (in which a community of founders provides capital and mentorship to a group of entrepreneurs) is more effective than the one to many traditional VC model. 
  • "If you're going to raise venture capital, that is not a solo activity, it takes a village to do that. And so having more connectivity to other founders and to people in the ecosystem I think is really what helps get the momentum going".

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