VC investor, 3x published author on VC published in 5 languages, former professor of VC at Chapman University, one of California's oldest universities & host of VC podcast Fireside with a VC. Based in Austin after 25 years in Silicon Valley, New York & London. My best advice to founders, VCs and members of the startup ecosystem to get ahead: spend 30% of your time doing favors for other people asking for nothing in return. The remaining 70% of your time will be a min 2x more effective giving you a 1.4x boost on your efforts. Raised $48m+ for startups I founded by the age of 28 years old. Key differentiators: 1) a sizable network of family office, corporate, sovereign wealth fund, and angel LPs that are VC-backed founders in Silicon Valley, NYC, Austin, Seattle, LA, San Diego and across the US as well as London, Stockholm, Paris, Zurich, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Africa, Middle East and across LatAm, footprint of active LPs across 6 continents ready to support our startups, 2) corporate network and expertise on CVC give us access to CEOs and c-suites of large corporates and conglomerates which enables us to add value to our startups, 3) track record in top 10% of US VC fund performance.