How To Find 🧠 SMART Money VCs and VALUE-ADDED Investors | Dose 064

Finding smart money investors? Here’s a guide to finding the right VC.

The truth about VC value-add is that many investors don’t add as much value as they claim. What is smart money in VC? What is a value added investor? With an abundance of dollars in the venture markets, investors often overuse terms like ‘smart money’ and ‘value-add VC’ to separate themselves from the rest of the pack of pure financiers. The central question at hand revolves around how do venture capitalists add value? In this Dose, Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures, shares his lessons on how to choose the right VC for your startup and a litmus test to distinguish value added investors. This video will help answer questions like how do I choose a good VC? What is a smart money example? What are the tricks to finding the right VC for your company? You’ll walk away with a clearer picture and process for finding a venture capitalist that fits. That’s how to choose a VC that’s right for you and find value added investors in a short 9-minute Dreamit Dose!

0:00 - Intro
0:33 - What is Smart Money?
1:32 - Your Cap Table & Marriage
3:33 - Litmus Test for Value Added Investors
5:35 - Reference Checking Investors
6:47 - Saving Space for Net Positive Investors
7:50 - Summary
8:54 - Outro

[stevebarsh]

What motivated me to shoot this Dose? I was on a recent call with a startup that said "well, we're looking for 'smart money'." And I looked at a their list of angel investors and thought to myself "well, that's certainly not the case to date." It dawned on me that while many founders use the "smart money" expression, they don't really know how to put it into action. So I wanted to provide my thoughts and guidance to change that for others. Hope you found this helpful and valuable. - Steve.

[TheNotAmazingGamerDad]

Hi Steve, great videos - very helpful. Thank you! Can I ask a quick question please? If there are 2 co-founders, do both co-founders go to every VC pitch?

[WeatherGuardLightningTech]

Investors are good; Investors who bring new leads and have experience in your business area is huge. Those are difficult to find.

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