{"id":1952,"date":"2012-07-11T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T20:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2018-11-25T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:32:11","slug":"fnoffice-hours-venture-capital-with-jeremy-schneider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/fnoffice-hours-venture-capital-with-jeremy-schneider\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring: Venture Capital with Jeremy Schneider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>fnMentoring\u00a0helps you accelerate your startup and expand your high tech network through private advising sessions with featured guest experts. Sessions are free to members but require your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/members.foundersnetwork.com\/events\/fnoffice-hours-venture-capital-with-jeremy-schneider\">RSVP<\/a>. If you are not a member you can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/apply.shtml\">apply here<\/a>. \u00a0Next week&#8217;s featured guest(s) will be:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winfunding.com\/\"><strong>Webb Investment Network<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nMaynard Webb, former COO of eBay and CEO of LiveOps, created the Webb Investment Network in 2010 to formalize the investing he\u2019s done over the past fifteen years. WIN\u2019s goal is to invest in companies that aim to change the world, particularly in mobile, consumer Internet, and cloud applications. With our 77 member Affiliate Network, WIN is able to draw not only from Maynard\u2019s experience and insight but also from those CEOs, CTOs, founders and investors who make up the WIN Affiliate Network to provide our portfolio companies with much more than capital: on-demand advice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they look for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Investment stage:<\/strong><br \/>\nSeed round (first source of capital), though WIN will make select investments in later stage (A, B, C) rounds. Though they typically do not lead rounds, they often partner with a syndicate of leading seed funds to fill a round.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Investment size:<\/strong><br \/>\n$100,000 &#8211; $500,000, with additional capital reserved for follow-on investments. WIN likes to back entrepreneurs throughout their funding lifecycle<\/li>\n<li><strong>Areas of focus:<\/strong><br \/>\nTechnology, with a particular interest in cloud applications and infrastructure, enterprise software, mobile, marketplaces, e-commerce, crowdsourcing, and consumer internet.\u00a0<strong>What they generally won\u2019t invest in:\u00a0<\/strong>Semiconductors, cleantech, life sciences, and non-technology companies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>How they decide:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>People first.\u00a0<\/strong>WIN bets on entrepreneurs over ideas. They gravitate toward entrepreneurs who are highly technical, passionate, realistic, and insightful, who are great listeners, who understand their competitors better than their competitors know themselves, and who dream of creating the next big thing in their respective industries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Problem solving.\u00a0<\/strong>They\u00a0seek to fund companies that are solving a deep, identifiable problem or pain point.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovation.<\/strong>\u00a0They\u00a0look for companies that have developed a unique or innovative product\/service, or a novel new approach.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Identifiable business model.\u00a0<\/strong>They\u00a0seek to fund companies with a business model that can rapidly scale in a cost-efficient way.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Traction.\u00a0<\/strong>With the costs of starting a company and getting a product to market rapidly declining, they prefer to invest in companies that have built a product, have a very clear use case with initial customers\/users and a clear path to revenue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"node-4\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1953\" style=\"width: 153px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1953\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1953 \" title=\"Jeremy Schneider, Senior Associate \" src=\"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jeremy-Schneider.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Schneider, Webb Investment Network\" width=\"143\" height=\"143\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Schneider, Senior Associate at Webb Investment Network<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/jeremy-schneider\/10\/3b3\/790\">Jeremy Schneider<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Position:<\/strong><br \/>\nSenior Associate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><br \/>\nB.A., History\u00a0from Dartmouth College<br \/>\nMSc, Economic and Social History from University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><br \/>\nJeremy Schneider joined WIN as a Senior Associate in January, 2011. Prior to WIN, Jeremy was a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain &amp; Company in San Francisco, where he focused on technology companies and worked in the Private Equity Group. He graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College, where he majored in History. He has a Master\u2019s degree inEconomic and Social History\u00a0from The University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar. 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