#25 Saul Klein, General Partner at LocalGlobe | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann

Saul Klein, serial entrepreneur and prominent seed investor in
the global tech scene, has co-founded numerous game-changing
businesses such as LocalGlobe, Seedcamp, Kano, Zinc or Lovefilm
(acquired by Amazon). Prior, he had a VP role at Skype and was
General Partner at Index Ventures. He shares with us his journey
to the entreprenurial space and talks about the transition from
working at an established company to starting your own business.
He highlights the first steps to take as founders to really see
the exciting opportunities and elaborates on the way LocalGlobe
evaluates investments and helps improve their performance.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann


https://www.linkedin.com/in/saulklein


https://localglobe.vc





00:00 Introduction


1:31 Saul's journey into the entrepreneurship world


3:40 Disrupting the newspaper industry as a 22 year old


6:25 Seeing entrepreneurship in a new light at netscape


08:55 Making the transition from working at an established
company to starting an own business


11:20 First startup experiences at a MIT spinn-off and getting to
know the VC and M&A space


13:55 Founding LoveFilm


16:00 Being an Marketing Executive at Skype


19:10 Advice on finding THE entrepreneurial opportunity


23:55 First steps to take as a founder to really see the exciting
opportunities


29:53 How to enhance the performance of the start-up as a VC


37:55 How LocalGlobe finds the startups to invest in


43:56 Quick Fire Round: who Saul admires the most | biggest risk
currently | #1 recommendation for aspiring entrepreneurs


44:38 Closing