{"id":12026,"date":"2025-12-11T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/capital-is-a-commodity-but-your-investor-relationships-arent\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T18:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:49:30","slug":"capital-is-a-commodity-but-your-investor-relationships-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/capital-is-a-commodity-but-your-investor-relationships-arent\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital is a commodity (but your investor relationships aren\u2019t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Venture capitalists Ross Fubini (XYZ Ventures) and&nbsp;Leslie&nbsp;Feinzaig&nbsp;(Graham &amp; Walker Ventures) pull back the curtain on how VCs build their own go-to-market strategies &mdash; not just how they&nbsp;evaluate&nbsp;startups, but&nbsp;also how they win over LPs and founders alike. In this episode of Build Mode, they share hard-won lessons from raising their first funds&nbsp;and how that experience allows them to empathize with founders.&nbsp;They discuss why &ldquo;founder-market fit&rdquo; 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>New episodes of Build Mode 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.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Capital is a commodity (but your investor relationships aren&rsquo;t)<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capitalists Ross Fubini (XYZ Ventures) and&nbsp;Leslie&nbsp;Feinzaig&nbsp;(Graham &amp; Walker Ventures) pull back the curtain on how VCs build their own go-to-market strategies &mdash; not just how they&nbsp;evaluate&nbsp;startups, but&nbsp;also how they win over LPs and founders alike. In this episode of Build Mode, they share hard-won lessons from raising their first funds&nbsp;and how that experience allows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/capital-is-a-commodity-but-your-investor-relationships-arent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Capital is a commodity (but your investor relationships aren\u2019t)&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}