Startup Boards -- Startup Investor Skills -- Evaluating the Product & Markets

Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

Startup investors need to hone their skills in order to succeed over the long run.

Key skills include: 

1. Evaluating teams.
2. Assessing products and markets.
3. Accessing financial capital not only for the current round of funding but for later stages.
4. Managing a portfolio of startup investments, including supporting the startup and generating exits.

So for the product, ask, is it a vitamin or a painkiller?

The vitamin makes you stronger and better, but it’s nice to have for the customer.

The painkiller is more important to the customer and, in some cases, crucial.

It’s better to invest in painkillers than vitamins.

For markets, you look for large markets, not small ones.  

Ask, where in the lifecycle is this market -- early stage, growing, maturing, or declining?

You want a market that is growing or about to start growing because of disruptive technology.

It’s important someone on the team knows the market very well.


Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.

Let’s go startup something today.
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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Joseph O'Bell, Attorney, Founder of Vineyard Sun LLC, and Host of the Moontower Business Podcast.

The Moontower Business Podcast was launched when the pandemic started. The goal was to showcase entrepreneurs and the business community in Austin, Texas. The podcast quickly evolved and began to cover entrepreneurs and business leaders all over the United States. The podcast has featured interviews with entrepreneurs and business leaders in a vast array of industries. Some of the guests include billionaire Peter Rex, Austin Mayor Steve Adler, former Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos, Jehudi Castro, Advisor to the President of Colombia, venture capitalist Sean Sheppard, Nik Bhatia author and Professor at USC Business School, and many more. 

Joseph is General Counsel for American Metals Recovery and Recycling Inc. as well as Multiband Global. He has practiced civil litigation and transactional work. Joseph has worked in the Texas Emerging Technology Fund in the Texas Governor’s Office and as General Counsel of a startup company called Votalize Inc. He is also the Founder of Vineyard Sun, LLC, an eCommerce sunglasses company based in Austin.

Joseph discusses the implications of the influx of persons into Austin, Texas, the bitcoin industry there, his podcast, and more.

Listen to the Moontower Business Podcast at www.moontowerbusinesspodcast.com, and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MoontowerB.  

Visit Vineyard Sun LLC at www.vineyardsun.com.  

Reach out to Joseph at joey.obell@multibandglobal.com, joseph@moontowerbusinesspodcast.com, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-o-bell-2451621b/, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/NY_TX_Lawyer/. 

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For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/ 
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For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/  

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