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How To Impress A Venture Capitalist: 12 Prominenct VC's Share What Gets Their Attention

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Phil Dur
April 14, 2015

Forbes Magazine spoke to a dozen VC firm founders and partners to get their wisdom on what it takes for companies to make a great impression on the VC circuit. PeakSpan co-founder Phil Dur contributed this advice on showing how it all stitches together:

“I am always impressed by entrepreneurs who can articulate a compelling and credible case for how the combination of their product vision, market opportunity, team, and go-to-market strategy will coalesce into a unique and disruptive opportunity for their business. Successful growth companies are the byproduct of a well-developed plan executed by a passionate team. In my experience, great entrepreneurs are terrific at showing how their performance to date hews to their vision for the business and its potential.”

Forbes Magazine: How To Impress A Venture Capitalist: 12 Prominent VCs Share What Gets Their Attention

About Phil Dur

Phil has been a software investor for over 25 years and has served on the boards of over 40 growth stage companies in his career. Before co-founding PeakSpan, Phil worked at Investor Growth Capital for 10 years as a leader in the software investment team. Prior to joining IGC, Phil also worked at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners (the firm’s expansion and growth stage fund) as part of the technology investment team and started his career at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (the firm’s private equity fund), focusing on, among other things, investments in software and other technology areas.

Phil is a graduate of Princeton University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and also served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve for seven years. Phil enjoys cooking (trained by the Peter Kump School and L’Escoffier de Gastronomie but still a very humble student), tennis, running, and spending time with his wife and 2 children enjoying everything Northern California has to offer.

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