Working in VC around the Baltimore-D.C. area over the last couple years, Mike Ravenscroft and Mike Leffer crossed paths often at entrepreneurial events. So inevitably they found themselves comparing notes. Eventually, one commonality rose to the fore.

“The thing that I found and that Mike found that we agreed upon was that the most interesting conversations that we had in a given day tended to be with a founder,” said Ravenscroft, who is currently a venture associate working with the angel network at the University of Maryland’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship in College Park, and has had stints with C5 Capital in D.C. and Northern Virginia’s CIT Gap Funds.

It could be a minute spent talking about getting a customer or a deep dive into a funding round.

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