This Week in Venture Capital #37 with Richard de Silva, General Partner at Highland Capital

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This Week in Venture Capital #37 with Richard de Silva, General Partner at Highland Capital

Wednesdays at 2pm (PST)

Get 2 V.C.’s in a room and watch the magic happen. This week Mark Suster brings in Richard de Silva, General Partner at Highland Capital to discuss trends, dollars and .coms.

Roko
This is one question every single venture capitalist fails to answer properly, “How can an entrepreneur get in touch with you?”. It never fails, the answer is always “It is best if you have a warm intro, know someone because we get lots of emails yada-yada…”
It turns out if someone has a contact who knows a VC they already know not to cold email. This question is asked for the people who do not have contacts.
http://twitter.com/thaduri Aditya Thaduri
Get contacts :)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottjhoward ScottjHoward
Excellent chat as always, thanks, Mark and Richard. Enjoyed the search discussion towards the end of the segment. It made me think of a product I saw Demo’d here in Toronto at DemoCamp28. http://attachments.me/ has built the solution to the Gmail search problem you talked about. I am checking out Cloud Sponge and FanSnap now.