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Beware of ASSHOLE VCs

VC Adventure

We meet with various company managers, talk to other people in industry to get their take, call current and prospective customers, exercise our own network of contacts to get background on the idea and team, perform reference checks on key management, etc. Before Foundry makes an investment we perform extensive due diligence.

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Lightspeed VC Michael Mignano on Why Apple’s Threats Influenced His Decision to Sell Anchor to Spotify, Why No FOMO in Venture is Good (AI Aside), & What NYC Founders Need to Realize

Hunter Walker

I can vouch for his genuine optimism Hunter Walk: You got to work with a number of different VCs on your cap table for Anchor. However, Apple had repeatedly threatened to cut off our distribution (despite our many attempts to partner with them), and their threats had grown more immediate and credible.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VCs also offer investors some of the same advantages as RBI: Clear return expectations : The return cap is a stated multiple of the investment, typically 2-5x. . Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

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Myth Busters: Debunking Seven Conventional Wisdom Maxims of Venture Capital

Genuine VC

VCs who swear publicly that they’ll never make an investment with less than 20% ownership show up on cap tables in the teens… the 20% pronouncements are just posturing for negotiation. They contribute in ways from opening their personal networks to providing counsel during important strategic decisions.

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The Version One Anti-Portfolio – the opportunities we missed…

Version One Ventures

Anyone who has ever spent time with Apoorva knows how smart he is, but we were too focused on how how operationally tough it would be to build up such a shopping delivery network. We loved the product, but weren’t convinced it would get much distribution quickly. Today, Instacart is the 6th most valuable company out of YC. Carta (prev.

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Beware of A **E VCs

VC Adventure

We meet with various company managers, talk to other people in industry to get their take, call current and prospective customers, exercise our own network of contacts to get background on the idea and team, perform reference checks on key management, etc. Before Foundry makes an investment we perform extensive due diligence.