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Thinking About Bodega

Hunter Walker

Startups, especially early stage startups, are in the weird position of simultaneously trying to reduce known risks while embracing new risks. Today, one of our portfolio companies launched and was met with a strong, unexpected reaction, one I didn’t anticipate. Support not just sales, but item rental, item exchange and so on.

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How VCs Make Money….Hopefully

ithacaVC

Typically, that might be 2% of committed capital per year paid quarterly. In its simplest form, think of profits as amounts returned to the fund in excess of capital commitments. Just like paying the portfolio company management team for doing its job. So, for VC1, that would be $2mm a year.