{"id":227895,"date":"2025-12-11T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/227895\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:07:10","slug":"capital-is-a-commodity-but-your-investor-relationships-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/227895\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital is a commodity (but your investor relationships aren\u2019t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Venture capitalists Ross Fubini (XYZ Ventures) and\u00a0Leslie\u00a0Feinzaig\u00a0(Graham &amp; Walker Ventures) pull back the curtain on how VCs build their own go-to-market strategies \u2014 not just how they\u00a0evaluate\u00a0startups, but\u00a0also how they win over LPs and founders alike. In this episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/build-mode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Build Mode<\/a>, they share hard-won lessons from raising their first funds\u00a0and how that experience allows them to empathize with founders.\u00a0They discuss why \u201cfounder-market fit\u201d applies to VCs too, how authentic thought leadership beats manufactured content, and why the best investor relationships start years before you need the money. Plus, the importance of building trust over transactions and why your network truly is your competitive advantage in venture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New episodes of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vWUZMNjEyNzkzNjQ5NA\" target=\"_blank\">Build Mode<\/a> drop every Thursday. Isabelle Johannessen is our host. Build Mode is produced and edited by Maggie Nye. Audience Development is led by Morgan Little. And a special thanks to the Foundry and Cheddar video teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venture capitalists Ross Fubini (XYZ Ventures) and\u00a0Leslie\u00a0Feinzaig\u00a0(Graham &amp; Walker Ventures) pull back the curtain on how VCs build&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[101672,18,19,17,82,256],"class_list":{"0":"post-227895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-build-mode","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-venture-capital"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115702506779433327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}