{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f15aaf5ea96cb0d9679b721/6134e32f2fc1c000122e596b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Community Fund’s Lolita Taub on investing in community-driven companies","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f15aaf5ea96cb0d9679b721/1630855868729-d69495e9b60af236a9eb1bb87c9f16df.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Lolita Taub has always been about community, from her upbringing in South Central LA to now at The Community Fund, which is a venture capital fund that invests in community-driven companies, “connecting people to people and resources to achieve results.”&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>By day, Lolita is the Corporate Development VP at Catalyte, but on breaks or weekends, she is an operator-investor, looking for those unicorns of the future. She believes these companies will “have customers that identify as members where members have a space to create value for each other, and then start this marketing sales flywheel.”</p><p><br></p><p>Listen for Lolita’s ideas of the expensive side of building a customer base and how “only good things can come out of” involving customers into building a company, such as lifetime value, retention, sales leads, and talent acquisition, among other benefits.</p><p><br></p><p>Also, don’t miss Lolita and David discussing <a href=\"https://www.notion.so/Startup-Investor-Matching-Tool-96826ae3549a434e952f6b266a8b9e0f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the startup investor matching tool</a> that began last year right on Twitter, and how COVID has changed how we build relationships.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Techstars"}