James Currier, NFX: Transforming How Innovators are Funded, Ep 130

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-size: 24pt;">James Currier, NFX: Transforming How Innovators are Funded, Ep 130</span><br /> <br /> James Currier is General Partner at NFX, an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on network effect businesses. As a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of four VC-backed companies, James has become an expert on network effects and growth. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through software and educational content, James and his co-founders are building a venture firm with a founders first approach that allows them to share their knowledge about growth and network effects to build impactful companies.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I sat down with James to talk about his experience as an entrepreneur and an investor and starting and working with some of today’s leading internet companies. James gives great advice on</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">starting a company, choosing a co-founder, and approaching a meeting with a VC.</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">We also touch on NFX’s selection criteria for founders and how</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">they tripled the rate at which they were investing when COVID-19 hit.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building a website with 175M users when the Internet had 600M</span></h3> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After graduating Harvard Business School, James was stuck between two paths: work at a VC or learn about growing a company. He chose the latter and dived into a 16-year long career as an entrepreneur. His first company –of many– was Tickle, a viral media company pioneering A/B testing and other viral growth mechanisms. Tickle won many accolades including Webby’s fastest growing website of the year in 2002.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to this episode of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crossing Borders</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to learn more about how