Wes Barton is a farmer, turned lawyer, turned investor, and is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Third Prime, venture capital firm based out of New York City. Third Prime is focused primarily on investing at the seed stage that are quite young, generating nominal revenue. In our conversation, Wes shares a bit about his personal background and we spend most of our time discussing some of the things they look for in a potential investment opportunity and some of the big do’s and don’ts when looking for investors. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and I hope you find value in it as I did.

Topics in this episode

The transition from angel investing in a couple of deals to creating an investment firm managing $100 million

Wes’ early investment experiences

The characteristics they are looking for in the initial conversation

Investing discipline and criteria now, versus when he started

Looking at the dynamic between co-founders

Asking entrepreneurs, “What could go wrong? What could make this fail?”

Sourcing channels and the entrepreneur community

Contact Info

Twitter: https://twitter.com/farmer_vc

Website: https://www.thirdprime.vc/

Email: [email protected]