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If you don't have the pedigree, go get it. Become that Stanford masters student, or go work at Google or Facebook for a few years. Then when dingbat investors l
by w1ntermute 10y ago
If you don't have the pedigree, go get it. Become that Stanford masters student, or go work at Google or Facebook for a few years. Then when dingbat investors like Suster ask for pedigree, just namedrop Google.
Of course, keep in mind that Suster himself doesn't have the right pedigree (he studied econ at UCSD and got an MBA from Chicago). Then again, maybe that's why he has a shitty portfolio (Upfront is certainly no Sequoia).
- jacques_chester 10y ago> If you don't have the pedigree, go get it. I am fortunate to be in a position where I can. But on the whole, it is probably cheaper (in time, money and stress) to find different investors than to go to Stanford.
- beachstartup 10y agosure it's not all-ivy harvard college + wharton but ucsd + booth will get you many VC meetings from the top tier names, based on my personal experience trying to raise funds for a previous startup. i think the fact that mark suster has successfully raised and sold multiple times w/ the pedigree crowd ... sort of confirms that, doesn't it? ucsd is fairly pedestrian, but chicago booth is ranked by usnwr the #2 business school in the nation, after harvard and tied with stanford... if you don't consider that a good pedigree i'm not really sure what to say.