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MERVIN EVANS-When Results Matter -Evans Venture Partners
MERVIN L. EVANS General Partner
Evans Venture Partners is active in all aspects of a young company's development including: strategy, recruiting, partnerships, financing, and operational advice. All three of Evans Venture Partners ’s partners have been successful business owners themselves and therefore understand many of the challenges and pressures facing our entrepreneurs. We understand the difference between helping and getting in the way.
It's easy to have supportive investors when things are going well but we pride ourselves on providing the critical support when things get tough.
We work as a partnership to make our initial investment decisions – any one of us can block an investment – which means we all commit to making every investment successful in our portfolio. Typically, we have more than one Partner attending board meetings and working with the company on a regular basis. Every quarter we review each and every investment together and put all the firm's resources to work helping our companies succeed.
We find that no one person brings everything a company needs, but there are very few things that our partnership as a whole cannot provide.
Evans Venture Partners contributes at the highest levels in helping a company achieve its maximum potential. While we are focused on achieving near term milestones, we are primarily interested in helping a company make the decisions and investments it needs to become a leader in its industry. Helping a CEO navigate the terrain in an increasingly competitive environment, helping recruit world class management, and having the courage to support a risky but ultimately more valuable path to success is our goal. Evans Venture Partners brings many years of experience and a track record of success in helping companies achieve this mission.
No young company today can afford to operate in a vacuum. The increasing competitiveness and aggressiveness of mature companies requires knowledge and access at high levels in order to avoid head on collisions with market leaders. Given the vast number of well capitalized startups, forging strong strategic partnerships with critical industry participants is a must for any company wanting to differentiate itself. Gaining a few high profile customer accounts early in a company's life can be the difference between success and failure. Evans Venture Partners provides access at the highest levels of many of the leading companies in the industries which we pursue.
