21 min

Uncharted Podcast #77, Why Seed Is the New Series A, and the Three Qualities That Are Most Important for Startup Founders With Greg Sands, Founder & Managing Partner of Costanoa Ventures Uncharted Podcast

    • Business

Poya and Robby interview Greg Sands, founder and managing partner at Costanoa Ventures. Prior to founding Costanoa, Sands was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill, where he invested in early stage enterprise software startups, such as Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Youku, Quinstreet, and Feedburner. He was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and built the SuiteSpot Business unit from $0-$140M. He also served as a business development manager at Cisco where he architected a channel management plan. He served a term as the President of the Stanford DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund and remains on the executive committee. He is also the former Trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust and former Chair of its Venture Capital Committee.

Connect with Greg: 


https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregsands/
https://twitter.com/gsands

Connect with Poya Osgouei:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                  

Connect with Robby Allen:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/       

This week's episode was supported by Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at indeed.com/scale)


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Poya and Robby interview Greg Sands, founder and managing partner at Costanoa Ventures. Prior to founding Costanoa, Sands was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill, where he invested in early stage enterprise software startups, such as Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Youku, Quinstreet, and Feedburner. He was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and built the SuiteSpot Business unit from $0-$140M. He also served as a business development manager at Cisco where he architected a channel management plan. He served a term as the President of the Stanford DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund and remains on the executive committee. He is also the former Trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust and former Chair of its Venture Capital Committee.

Connect with Greg: 


https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregsands/
https://twitter.com/gsands

Connect with Poya Osgouei:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                  

Connect with Robby Allen:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/       

This week's episode was supported by Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at indeed.com/scale)


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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uncharted1/support

21 min

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