5000 Business Plans, 50 deals, 25 write-offs: Lessons learnt in 25 years as a VC with Chris Golis and City Business Swap

5000 Business Plans, 50 Deals, 25 Write-offs: Lessons learnt in 25 years of Venture Capital.

Chris Golis spent 25 years in the venture capital industry both as an entrepreneur and venture capital manager of five funds. 

He is one of the few people in Australia who have successfully grown companies that have made significant capital gains for their owners including DKS (MD 1989-91), GMD Group, IPL Datron, Scitec (Chairman 1994-2000) , Neverfail SpringWater (Chairman 1990-95) and VeCommerce (Chairman 2000-2006).   He has been a director of some 30 public and VC backed private companies.

In this one-hour keynote Chris Golis outlines five keys to success in building a winning business:

1.      What’s your SCA?

2.      Lease the pencils

3.      Know the game

4.      What stage entrepreneur are you?

5.      Grab the golden ring

If you are a positive-thinking business person, an entreprenuer, or thinking of becoming one, you will find this a refreshing insight into the world of entrepreneurship. One attendee to a previous presentation tweeted afterwards:

Thanks for your presentation on Friday. It was excellent. 10 out of 10!

Everyone enjoyed it and its the best venture capital presentation I have seen (and I've been to AVCAL Annual Conference 3 times now).