The Disruptive Entrepreneur

DESCRIPTION Today, Rob is joined by American venture capital investor Tim Draper, whose most prominent investments include Hotmail, Skype, Tesla and Twitter. Learn today what investors look for in an entrepreneur and what it truly means to be one, as well as why it is important to visualise the future success of companies when investing in them rather than looking at what could go wrong.   KEY TAKEAWAYS As an early-stage venture investor, you need to put your money into a variety of different companies because it is only a small number of businesses that makes it big and so you have to have at least 20 or 30 investments in any given fund.   If a company is doing something entirely new and different there is not much research you can do so you have to just project out ‘what is the world going to look like in 5, 10, 15 years from now if these people are successful?’ That is the question you should ask yourself when considering to invest in a company rather than what could go wrong.   A true entrepreneur is