Rob Hayes, Partner, First Round Capital Since the beginning of venture capital time, the "product" that VCs offer has been money and , if you were lucky, a smart partner. That is changing quickly as investors begin to use platforms and network effects to improve the quality if the offering they bring to the companies they work with. Come hear how one leading venture firm thinks about how they can best serve their customers.

1. Innovating VC with Platform and Community

2. An entrepreneur’s job is complex

5. Venture Business is Simple
Simple ≠ Easy

6. 2. Help Companies
1. Pick Companies

7. 2. Help Companies

8. 1. Money
2. Partner Advice

9. 1. Money
2. Partner Advice

10. 1. Money
2. Partner Advice

13. Operating experience
Portfolio experience
Time
Valueofexperience

15. - Knowledge “how do I do x?”
- Talent
- Business Development/Partnerships
- Research/Insights

16. Venture
Capitalist
Company 3
Company 2
Company 1
Company 4

18. 1. Money
2. Partner Advice
Where’s the Innovation?

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21. What Should You Be
Asking For From Your
VC?

22. We Asked Ourselves the
Same Question

23. Venture
Capitalist
Company 3
Company 2
Company 1
Company 4

24. Venture
Capitalist

25. Company 3
Company 2
Company 1
Company 4

26. 2005

28. CEOs-
Please forward this (immediately) to anyone you know with MySQL scalability and tuning expertise.
Have them call me at xxx.xxx.xxxx!
We thought we prepared for some scale (we spent all last week testing), but we've had about 150,000
unique visitors in the past 24 hours, and over 20,000 signups. Each signup adds 3-4 financial
accounts with hundreds to thousands of financial transactions per account.
Our site is crawling, and we've isolated it to our MySQL DB. I think we have the hardware to handle it
(16 GB of mem, 15,000 RPM RAID 10 disks, 8-CPU box). However, we need a real expert to:
1) Make sure we have the right configuration parameters and caching (immediately)
2) Help us with database partitioning or replication strategies (in the next few days)
We're well funded. We can pay well for assistance.
Even if it's just a simple phone call to give us any pointers we might not have thought of, we could use
the help.
Thanks,
Aaron
Founder & CEO, Mint.com

29. Peer to Peer Model

32. - Curated
- Trusted
- Collaborative
- Confidential

37. Built Tons More

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45. The Result

47. - Software driven network effects
- Transformative value outside of the C-Suite
- More successful companies
- More fun

48. 1. Money
2. Partner Advice
3. Community / Network

49. Push Your VC Partners

50. Thank You