The Sure Shot Entrepreneur

Successful entrepreneurs begin with the support of a few #earlybelievers. Gopi Rangan, founding partner at Sure Ventures, interviews venture capital investors in the Silicon Valley and beyond. Guests share insider stories on how they invest in early stage startups. Do you want to learn from real-life challenges, inspiring missions and important decisions by CEOs, founders, VCs, angels, and advisors? Listen to https://podcast.sure.ventures.

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episode 75: Avoid ‘Me-too’ Startup Ideas

Dan Rosen, Founder and General Partner at Commerce Ventures, talks about the evolution of fintech over the last two decades. Dan shares real-life examples of innovative fintech entrepreneurs building solutions that touch customers and businesses in a meaningful way, and his thoughts on whether or not now is still a good time to start a company in the fintech space.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

[4:57] Why many of the early investments in FinTech were in enablers and infrastructure

[9:27] Having domain expertise is good, but passionate outsiders are doing equally great in modern FinTech

[13:46] How telling your journey first connects you with the right investor

[19:04] Have we reached peak FinTech, or is there more to go?

About Guest Speaker
Dan Rosen is the Founder and General Partner at Commerce Ventures. Dan is one of the original FinTech VCs and has been investing in tech startups for 20 years. He focuses on technology innovations in the payments, financial services and insurance fields, serves on the boards of Blooom, ClickSWITCH, Kin and Socure, and participates as an observer on several other portfolio boards, such as BillGO and MX Technologies.
Fun Fact: Dan funded his adolescent baseball card and comic book collecting habits by delivering the Boston Globe newspaper early each morning (rain or shine).
About Commerce Ventures

Commerce Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based early stage venture capital firm focused on investing and empowering the next generation of technology innovators in the retail and financial services industries. Portfolio companies include: bill.com. BILLGO, ClickSWITCH, InAUTH, Kin, MARQETA, Blooom, Theatro, Boomtown, Vestwell, Mulberry and Socure.

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December 14, 2021 24m