The Meet And Greet

One of the things that is hard to do is manage your schedule no matter what line of work you are in.  In the investing business, I always used to get coffee at an initial meeting.  However, today, I prefer to do a shorter phone call on an initial meet.  The reason is I might be able to save the entrepreneur or other person a lot of time and money.

If it’s a pitch, usually it works better for me to have a phone call to get to know the person a bit and just hear a little about the company.   If it’s interesting and fits our thesis, then a follow up meeting is warranted.  If not, we can go our separate ways and the entrepreneur saved a lot of time.

Often, a lot of people want to meet to figure out how to get in VC or just network.  Most of the time, these are best done over the phone or even an email.

There is a lot of this in the VC business.  If you cannot manage your schedule, it will be like holding a tiger by the tail.