VCIR – The Plan

I'm trying the live blogging thing this morning. I'm attending Venture Capital in the Rockies conference. I've attended the conference for the last several years and last year I was a presenter. Right now I'm watching the Limited Partner Panel hosted by Brad Feld. Limited partners are the guys that fund the VC's.

David Cohen is sitting across the table from me looking engrossed in the presentation. Looking at the presentation schedule there are a few contentions between companies I want to see but I think my strategy for the morning is the following.

1. Zayo Group / Dan Caruso, CEO
2. WBS Connect / Scott Charter, President & CEO
3. FiltrBox / Ari Newman, President - (although I really want to see Tenril Networks in Track Two)
4. Control4 / Will West, CEO
5. HiveLive / John Kembel, CEO

So bottom line from the panel that is wrapping up as I write this. If you are a regional VC, and telling a story that you are an expert in a region and that's why your LP's should invest – that appears to be a non-starting strategy. They all want to invest in VC's with national reach (I think we all knew that).

Comments

[Joy]

Would love to know your thoughts on Zayo -- rapidly growing, well-funded (not unique in telecom) and customer focused (VERY unique in telecom!). Relating to Zayo, go to http://www.bearonbusiness.com -- Dan Caruso waxes philosophical on a variety of topics relating to telecom and business. It's a good read!