March 18th, 2011

Ask a VC: Peter Barris on Scaling the VC Business and Snagging the First Stake in Groupon (TCTV)

Barris

My guest this week on Ask a VC is Peter Barris of NEA. NEA is one of the oldest venture firms in the country, one of the first to be bicoastal and one that unabashedly sticks to the same mega-fund strategy in good times and bad.

Reader questions for Barris included everything from how to avoid getting cheated by bad VCs and what metrics he looks at when investing in an ecommerce company.

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