Senior Vice President of National Transactions, APARTMENT INVST & MGMT CO
Matt: Being an Attractive Investment
This video is part of the Udacity course "Get Your Startup Started". Watch the full course at https://www.udacity.com/course/ud806.
About Matt Konrad
In a 2016 Udacity course video, Matt Konrad, Senior Vice President of National Transactions at Apartment Invst Mgmt, discussed the qualities investors seek in a company. He stated that investors' considerations can be boiled down to three questions: whether the market is large enough, whether the problem being solved is important and widely recognized, and whether the company is best positioned to solve that problem. Konrad also noted that early-stage investors typically look for a 20 to 100 return on their money, and advised entrepreneurs to evaluate whether they can deliver such returns, suggesting that if they cannot, they may need to re-evaluate the problem they are trying to solve.
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The qualities that investors are looking for in a company, I think, can boil down to three questions. The first is, is the market big enough? Is there enough opportunity out there for a company to go out and succeed? The second question is, is the problem that you're trying to solve something that's important? Is it something that a lot of people believe is an actual problem that needs to be solved? And the third thing is, is your company best positioned to solve that problem better than anybody else? And you have to ask yourself those three questions. There's one other thing you have to look at. And that is that for early stage investors, they're looking for a 20 to 100 return on their money. And when you think about your problem and you think about taking money and what you will ultimately be able to return, you have to ask yourself the question, can you return that much money to the investor? And if you can't, then you probably need to go back and re-evaluate the problem that you're trying to solve.