The advantages of having Clearstone Venture Partners as your VC are many…
– They are just the best board members to have.
– They Operate from LA!! Yipee!!
Enjoy a photo essay of a meeting I had with my investor – Sumant Mandal in his luxurious Santa Monica (LA) office:
Walking to this beautiful classy building that houses the Clearstone office on 4th Street Santa Monica.
Its just 1 street ahead of 3rd street!
The Lobby ( looking backwards)
Main lobby seating – so LA..
Landing into the Eagles Nest
Stocking up on some yummies before the meeting starts… the spread of food and drinks makes choosing difficult
Walking towards the meeting room (on the right) – notice the ceilings and stone facades
Sumant and I spent a good 2 hours discussing games2win and its future plans. What was interesting about the entire discussion is the ONE WORD Sumant wrote on his white board before the meeting began:
‘Inefficiency’
He asked me to forget tactical and operating plans and explain to me what were the Inefficiencies in Online Gaming, iOs gaming and Virtual gaming and then how games2win would create efficiency to counter these inefficiencies and create massive upside value.
The best part of meeting VC’s like Clearstone and Sumant who sit in the center of the universe of entertainment (LA), technology & innovation (California) and the vast experience of the firms (Original VC’s of MP3.com, Paypal.com) is a UNIQUE perspective that they bring to your business.
Just ‘delayering’ the business with Sumant and building it back with new cement and bricks (inefficiency) created a huge difference in the way I looked at my own business.
The Meeting over – I made a beautiful exit – one street down, into 3rd street promenade!!
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