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    20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital

    20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital

    FromThe Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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    20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital

    FromThe Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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    Length:
    24 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 22, 2015
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Rob Moffat is Principal at Balderton Capital, one of London's leading VC firms. At Balderton Rob specialises in Fintech, Martech, Gaming and Marketplaces. Rob is currently a board director or observer with six portfolio companies: Qubit, Wooga, Housetrip, Carwow, Rentify and Nutmeg. Other investments Rob has been involved with at Balderton include Citymapper, Top10, Scoot and Archify. Prior to joining Balderton Rob worked for Google in London, as a Manager in the European Strategy and Operations team. He started his career with five years in strategy consulting with Bain, working mostly with financial services clients.
     
    In today's amazing discussion with Rob we discover:

    What characteristics make a great VC?
    How VCs assess incoming business plans and investment opportunities?
    The biggest problem facing Rob today, as Principal at Balderton?
    How the structure of VC firms is changing to a service based environment?
    Does Crowdfunding pose a threat to VC as a alternative method of finance?
    For individuals wanting to move into Venture, what can they do to optimise their employability in the VC world?

    Items Mentioned in Today's Show:

    Rob Moffat: Medium
    Rob's Favourite Book: The Circle: Dave Eggers
    Crowdcube
    Just Park
    Nutmeg: Online Investment Management

    As always you can follow Harry, Rob and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here!
     
    Released:
    Jun 22, 2015
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    The Twenty Minute VC takes you inside the world of Venture Capital, Startup Funding and The Pitch. Join our host, Harry Stebbings and discover how you can attain funding for your business by listening to what the most prominent investors are directly looking for in startups, providing easily actionable tips and tricks that can be put in place to increase your chances of getting funded. Although, you may not want to raise funding for a startup. The Twenty Minute VC also provides an instructional guide as to what it takes to get employed in the Venture Capital industry, with VCs giving specific advice on how to get noticed from the crowd and increasing your chances of employment. If that wasn't enough our amazing Venture Capitalists also provide their analysis of the current technology market, providing advice and suggestions on the latest investing trends and predictions. Join us so you can see how you can get BIG, powerful improvements, fast. Would you like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC, head on over to www.thetwentyminutevc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and a more detailed analysis of the technology and Venture Capital industry.