One of the most common charges leveled against venture capitalists is that they are rude. Part of that complaint stems from the fact that many venture capital firms
don't respond to business plans or executive summaries blindly e-mailed in.
Well, here's your chance to elicit a response. Tomorrow night, the four panelists at the VC Taskforce's VC Connect event have pledged to respond to all entrepreneur questions and executive summaries within one week of the event. The four panelists are an increasingly rare breed in Silicon Valley; they focus exclusively on early-stage startups:
- Christine Herron - Venture Advisor at First Round Capital, backer of startups such as StumbleUpon and Aggregate Knowledge
- John Dean - Managing General Partner at Startup Capital Ventures, founded by the former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank
- Lee Lorenzen - Founder of Altura Ventures, the only venture capital firm (for better or worse) to focus only on Facebook apps
- Brian Connors - General Partner at Formative Ventures, investors in startups such as Mashery in Marketocracy.
After a short opening discussion led by Garage Technology Ventures' Bill Reichert about how the investors assess new technology opportunities, the quintet will take questions from the audience of entrepreneurs. Register for the event being held Wednesday night in Palo Alto
here.
- Joshua Jaffe
Joshua Jaffe is general manager of TechConfidential.com.
