Early stage venture capital funds w/ Natty Zola, Partner @ Matchstick Ventures

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Welcome to The Legacy Wealth Podcast where we help accredited business owners become educated & get access to, private investments that the wealthiest investors in the world utilize to grow their net worth. We do this by providing insight & access to successful fund managers & investors across multiple asset classes.

We are your hosts, Pascal Wagner & Mike Klein, and today we are interviewing Natty Zola, Manager Partner @ Matchstick Ventures and we're diving into:

- What makes Venture Capital an interesting investment to consider in your portfolio
- What all is involved investing in Venture Capital
- Matchstick Ventures strategy for early stage startup investing

With that said, let’s get to it!

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Links from our Guest

- https://twitter.com/NattyZ
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nattyzola/
- https://www.instagram.com/nattyz/
- http://matchstick.vc/

Time Stamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:19 - Natty Zola's background
01:13 - Discussion on different types of funds
02:00 - Discussion on venture capital as a top-performing asset class in the last 15 years
02:45 - Two main types of investors in venture capital
05:11 - The importance of investing in people over products.
08:00 - The importance of understanding the founders' vision and passion for the business.
11:30 - Taking risks is necessary to succeed in venture capital.
12:45 - The different stages of venture capital
15:15 - How the most successful companies have a strong product-market fit.
19:15 - The importance of having a diverse portfolio of investments.
21:00 -The questions LPs should ask venture funds when assessing them.
21:28 - The three circles of Jim Collins' hedgehog concept
23:00 - The difference between private equity and venture capital.
26:30 - The different types of venture capital fund
30:15 - The challenge of assessing startups in their earliest stages
33:09 - The questions asked during meetings with entrepreneurs are designed to assess the viability of the startup
41:44 - What Matchstick Ventures focuses on
51:44 - the importance of building trust with entrepreneurs and how it takes time to build a relationship with a founder.
56:45 - The best practices he has seen in the market.
01:10:45 - The illiquidity in venture capital and its effects on investors
01:13:00 - How venture capital allows for vintage diversity,
01:14:00 - The correction in the venture capital ecosystem and how it is now a much healthier ecosystem.
01:14:38 - Outro