Meka Asonye is a Companion at First Spherical Capital based mostly in San Francisco. Earlier than shifting into enterprise, Meka was an lively angel investor backing corporations akin to Coda, Alchemy, Rimeto (acq. by Slack), Snackpass and Stytch. Beforehand, he served because the VP of Gross sales & Providers at Mixpanel, the place he ran the greater than 100-person world income crew. Earlier than Mixpanel, Meka spent 4 years at Stripe and scaled and matured its gross sales group through the firm’s speedy progress from 250 to 2000 folks. Previous to becoming a member of Stripe, Meka served as Case Workforce Chief at Bain in San Francisco, partnering with the C-Suites of Fortune 50 corporations throughout completely different verticals. Meka began his profession working in Participant Improvement & Baseball Operations for the Cleveland Indians. Meka earned a Bachelor of Arts diploma cum laude in Economics and Finance from Princeton and his MBA from Harvard Enterprise Faculty
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What you’ll be taught
- Long run orientation for lead distribution at Stripe
- Investing within the individual, after which the product, is most essential in angel investing
- Finest tricks to begin out in angel investing
- Compensation buildings that early stage corporations ought to implement
Highlights
(3:44) How Meka began his profession in participant improvement and baseball ops for the Cleveland Indians
(8:50) Meka’s largest challenges throughout his time at Stripe because the Head of Gross sales
(10:15) How the SMB crew measured success at Stripe and the way it advanced over time
(13:14) Balancing lead distribution at Stripe
(16:28) Practising “Dumpster Diving” at Stripe
(18:00) Organising long run incentive buildings at Stripe
(22:48) How Meka started angel investing
(28:10) What Meka realized from his first angel investing expertise
(36:22) The easiest way to begin out in angel investing
(39:42) Why conventional gross sales compensation fashions at early stage corporations is flawed
(42:00) The significance of teaching your prospects successfully by means of every contact
Quotes
One of many issues I search for out of founders is business orientation.
I knew just a little bit about what he was constructing however I actually simply made a guess on the individual.
What makes you cash and loses you cash is the founder.
Hyperlinks and Assets
Meka’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mekaasonye/
Meka’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigMekaStyle
Mekas’s E-mail: Meka@fristround.com
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