20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu

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4.4 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Lisa is Vice President at Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), where she focuses on early to late stage investments with emphasis on consumer internet. Before joining NVP, Lisa worked in Amazon's Worldwide Corporate Development Team, in which she evaluated acquisition targets and identified strategies for potential expansion. Prior to Amazon, Lisa was at Bessemer Venture Partners. If that wasn't enough Lisa also founded her own startup, Banzaa! Fresh, providing high quality nutritious foods to schools and hospitals in Northern California.

Items Mentioned in Todays show:

Etsy

Lending Club

SkyBox

FireEye

Jet

DoubleClick

What you will learn in today's show:

How Lisa got into the investing game?
Why Lisa is investing in marketplaces?
What Lisa's normal investment size is?
Lisa's most recent investment and why Lisa said yes?
Does Silicon Valley deserve the accolade it gets? Or is NYC fast approaching?
Do VCs investment attitudes differ when comparing SF to NYC?
How early is too early for Lisa to invest?
What was the one thing that propelled Lisa's career?

We then move into a quick fire round where we hear Lisa's thoughts on the best advice she has ever been given, the number 1 reason Lisa says no to startups and what Lisa would do if all she had was a laptop and $100!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 15 of the 20 minute VC. Now I'm hugely, hugely excited today to welcome our first female guest. I'd like to welcome Lisa Wu.
0:11.4	Lisa is currently vice president at Norwest Venture Partners, where she focuses on early to late stage venture investments across a wide range of sectors, but with a particular
0:21.9	emphasis on consumer internet. Before joining MVP, Lisa worked at Amazon's worldwide corporate
0:28.8	development team. Here, Lisa identified strategic investments for Amazon, as well as providing
0:34.2	strategies for potential expansion. Prior to Amazon, Lisa was on the team at Bessemer Venture Partners,
0:40.2	working on early stage investment opportunities.
0:43.2	As if this wasn't enough, Lisa founded her own startup, Banzer,
0:47.5	a small business providing high-quality nutritious food
0:50.3	to schools and hospitals in Northern California.
0:53.1	Before we dive into the interview, would you like the chance to pitch to one of the VCs interviewed
0:57.6	under the show? If so, head on over to iTunes and leave a review and then email Harry at the
1:04.0	20 minute VC.com with the name that you left the review under on iTunes.
1:09.3	Without further ado, it's time to welcome Lisa.
1:12.5	Three, two, one, zero.
1:17.9	You have now arrived at your destination.
1:20.8	Lisa, thank you so much for coming on the show.
1:22.8	I'm extremely honored to have you on as our first female guest.
1:25.9	This is very exciting for us.
1:28.3	And I really always like to start the session with a little about yourself and how you got into
1:33.3	the industry.
1:34.3	Sure.
1:35.3	So it's great to be on the show and I'm happy to tell you about my background.
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