Kjartan Rist, Founding Partner at Concentric Partners, has spent the last 18 years focusing on the technology start-ups and scale-ups as a founder, advisor, Board member and investor. He’s been involved in over 50 transactions and founded or co-founded 2 successful VC funds and a merchant bank.

Kjartan discusses:

• The valuable lessons he learned in his early days in VC from experienced investors – like Nenad Marovac & Steve Schlenker at DN Capital – and also Steve Papa, the founder-CEO at Endeca
• The value a local VC firm can provide to a tech venture developing an international footprint – in terms of strategic business development and local go2market strategy
• A very candid analysis of the challenges faced by 1 of his enterprise software investments – including the dangers of relying too much on a single route to market – and the steps they are now taking to overcome those challenges
• The crucial role played by advisory boards to augment the CEO and his/her skills

For more VC insights check out http://concentricteam.com

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