Camp One Ventures listens to almost 500 live pitches a year. If you consider that there are roughly 260 business days a year, then that is an average of 1.92 pitches per day. That’s a lot of listening. So what are we thinking while you are pitching us? Typically, we bet on the jockey- not the horse. This means that investors are sometimes analyzing you more intensely...

Mark Suster, of Upfront Ventures, publishes an excellent blog called Both Sides of the Table. It’s one of my favorite peer publications because his investing perspectives and strategic thinking often aligns with the approach we take at Camp One. His recent article on exclusivity deals, highlighting the “Mother of All Exclusivity Deals” (Apple and AT&T), hits home as we often encounter these types of agreements. Traditionally,...