Our good friend Paul Jozefak of Neuhaus Partners appeared on This Week in Venture Capital last week. The show is hosted by Mark Suster and part of the ThisWeekIn network launched by Jason Calacanis.
Besides Mark and Paul, there is also Om Malik of GigaOm fame on the show. And the fun thing is: Paul just jumped off the plane from Germany to show up at the studio in Santa Monica, while Om is dialing in from San Francisco. To be fair, that's a distance of 400 miles (or 640 Kilometers), not just round the corner.
Paul has been working in Venture Capital for almost ten years now. On the show, he talks about his time at SAP Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of SAP. Asked about the advice he would have for entrepreneurs who work with corporate VCs, Paul answers:
One of the biggest pitfalls is probably setting your expectations too high. As to what the corporate can deliver above and beyond the money. Because a lot of people go in and think that if they are getting money from a corporate VC that means that they are going to have immediate access to business units or to the sales force, or getting on a price list. It just doesn't happen that quickly. Or it just doesn't happen in a lot of cases.
Amongst other things, Paul also explicates the investment strategy of Neuhaus Partners where he is a partner. The show is definitely a must!
By the way, Gottfried Neuhaus joined us back in 2006 for the very first next conference. Watch the video (in German)!

































































