Investor Spotlight: Stage Venture Partners – Investing Where Others Aren’t Looking with Alex Rubalcava
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“To me, the three questions that matter when evaluating a management team are, can you ship? Can you sell? And can you hire?” – Alex Rubalcava
Alex Rubalcava (@AlexRubalcava) is Partner of Stage Venture Partners, a pre-Seed and Seed stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging software technology for business-to-business markets. He began his VC career as an analyst at Anthem Venture Partners in 2002, and he as served on the boards of numerous Stage VP companies, including Balto, NotiSphere, SoundCommerce, WhiteFox, SPIDR Tech, Abett, Gray Matter Robotics, and Dyania Health.
Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/stage-venture-partners-investing-where-others-arent-looking-alex-rubalcava-spotlight-show-notes
Topics discussed with Alex Rubalcava
00:02:04 – Alex’s career in investing
00:06:41 – Investing in technology
00:13:32 – Stage Venture Partners’ investment thesis
00:23:30 – Investing in manufacturing and industrial applications
00:34:41 – Finding emerging technologies and applications to invest in
00:39:04 – Investment opportunities in space
00:49:48 – On founder mafias
00:52:42 – Attending annual Berkshire Hathaway meetings
00:56:51 – Patience and long-term ownership in investing
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“To me, the three questions that matter when evaluating a management team are, can you ship? Can you sell? And can you hire?” – Alex Rubalcava
Alex Rubalcava (@AlexRubalcava) is Partner of Stage Venture Partners, a pre-Seed and Seed stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging software technology for business-to-business markets. He began his VC career as an analyst at Anthem Venture Partners in 2002, and he as served on the boards of numerous Stage VP companies, including Balto, NotiSphere, SoundCommerce, WhiteFox, SPIDR Tech, Abett, Gray Matter Robotics, and Dyania Health.
Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/stage-venture-partners-investing-where-others-arent-looking-alex-rubalcava-spotlight-show-notes
Topics discussed with Alex Rubalcava
00:02:04 – Alex’s career in investing
00:06:41 – Investing in technology
00:13:32 – Stage Venture Partners’ investment thesis
00:23:30 – Investing in manufacturing and industrial applications
00:34:41 – Finding emerging technologies and applications to invest in
00:39:04 – Investment opportunities in space
00:49:48 – On founder mafias
00:52:42 – Attending annual Berkshire Hathaway meetings
00:56:51 – Patience and long-term ownership in investing
Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week.
Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy.
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