{"id":259,"date":"2010-02-06T05:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2010-02-06T05:13:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T12:13:21","slug":"pehub-a-glimpse-inside-ron-conway%e2%80%99s-virtual-venture-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/pehub-a-glimpse-inside-ron-conway%e2%80%99s-virtual-venture-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"peHUB > A Glimpse Inside Ron Conway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Virtual Venture Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

A prolific angel investor who deserves the attention– here’s a blog post by Connie Loizos on pehub<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a block on what the firm is looking for these days:<\/p>\n

The criteria is loose, though\u00c2\u00a0a\u00c2\u00a0priority for Conway right now is the so-called live Internet \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a wider trend in how users more immediately interact and share content these days \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and mobile applications. In fact, concepts that combine both in particular \u00e2\u20ac\u0153move to the top of the list,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Lee.<\/p>\n

The\u00c2\u00a0closer a startup is to an inflection point, the better, too. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We try to get involved when they need help with a key business development deal or a subsequent financing or with key hires,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to Lee, who adds that occasionally, the group \u00e2\u20ac\u201d operating under moniker SV Angel \u00e2\u20ac\u201d will also back entrepreneurs\u00c2\u00a0at the concept stage. He\u00c2\u00a0says that it happens \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rarely. It very much depends on the entrepreneur and the idea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The rest of the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time is spent cultivating stronger partnerships with Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on behalf of its startups,\u00c2\u00a0or meeting, often at Conway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0lavish San Francisco home,\u00c2\u00a0with the new entrepreneurs that are regularly funneled their way.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We try to spend as much time with prospective opportunities because, at the risk of sounding corny, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the most fun part of this business,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Lee. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Even if they are opportunities we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pursue, [meeting with them] feeds the ecosystem, and we do think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pay-it-forward business.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A prolific angel investor who deserves the attention– here’s a blog post by Connie Loizos on pehub.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a block on what the firm is looking for these days: The criteria is loose, though\u00c2\u00a0a\u00c2\u00a0priority for Conway right now is the so-called live Internet \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a wider trend in how users more immediately interact and share … Continue reading peHUB > A Glimpse Inside Ron Conway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Virtual Venture Firm<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,22],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angel","tag-vc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}