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Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures, On Mental Health And Investing In Founders

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The logic behind this, is that 80 percent of our bets are founder bets, and we believe we need to use every resource we can to help entrepreneurs be successful in hitting milestones. What drove your decision to focus on mental health and this aspect for entrepreneurs? It's a comprehensive bucket.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. The top quartile funds have performed well.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

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I know many super experienced entrepreneurs who don’t understand the basics of how fund size and age can affect them so I thought it was worth establishing a baseline. I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. invested in the seed round they have more inside knowledge than I do.

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

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One of my favorite entrepreneur-Twitterer weighed in, “You want to keep tapping into their collective intelligence so you keep saying ‘Thank you for the feedback’ and they keep sending it,” Ms. I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. Morrill said.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago. The iPhone was released.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. billion). . <Note:

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Pay it Forward: Capital Drives Bio Innovation in San Diego & Beyond

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Because I stepped out of an operational role early last year, I am now in a position of providing financing to aspiring life sciences entrepreneurs. During the process of arranging early funding for Organovo in 2008-2010, I worked with angels in San Diego, all over the country, and around the world.