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Why Investors Invest: Bit Torrent as an Example

By Ping Li Ashwin Navin - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Ping Li, Partner at Accel, talks about how they evaluated Bit Torrent as a potential venture capital investment. Li suggests that Bit Torrent possessed three things which led to the eventual investment: 1) Deep, distinctive technology and a really meaningful problem, 2) A strong team that had proved a legitimate business model and 3) Shared vision about the future potential of the company.

Course Index

  1. Founding Teams
  2. Stages of a Startup
  3. Why Investors Invest: Bit Torrent as an Example
  4. The Value of an Open Source Model