Greg Galant – who does the Venture Voice podcast – just posted an interview he did with me on Monday. We did it over Skype which – while noticeable – was really effective.
Greg gives good interview – we covered a lot of ground which Greg did a nice job of summarizing in the show notes. We had a short discussion about the difference between a consulting business and a product business and the corresponding challenge of transforming a consulting business to a product business. We also talking about the transition I made from entrepreneur to investor and I found – as I listened – that these situations were eerily analogous.
While the first half was about entrepreneurship; the second half was about venture capital. Greg probed around how to think about and evaluate VCs as well as issues surrounding raising money. We covered some deal stuff and I even said something nice about lawyers about 27 minutes in. At the end, I talked some about life before email and voice mail (egads – that feels like forever ago – but it was just 1991). I also talk about the critical importance of listening to one’s wife (at least mine).
Verbal tick alert: “Ya know” seemed to creep deeply into this podcast. As least it wasn’t “honestly, to tell you the truth…”
Entertainingly, as I was writing this post, I got an IM from Jeremy Hague at Skylook who had just been talking to Greg (I’ve been playing with Jeremy’s Skype Outlook plugin ) and Jeremy mentioned that he’d recently been interviewed on Venture Voice also. “Small” world.