Investments as Products, Asking Better Questions, and Improving as an Investor with Phin Barnes

Phin Barnes (@phineasb), venture capitalist, most recently at First Round, joins Erik on this episode which was recorded as part of an On Deck Angels event.

They discuss:

- Why he thinks of an investment as a product.

- Advice for founders working with investors.

- The reasons he has changed his mind after a meeting with an entrepreneur.

- How to ask better questions.

- Why he loves “seeing something in someone they don’t see in themselves” and amplifying their success.

- Why making more smaller investments is the best way to get better as an investor.

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