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JANUARY 22, 2014
So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. I think of VCs as coaches. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. Most VCs are book smart.
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APRIL 20, 2011
They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. I think you'll enjoy hearing him, but if you're in a rush check out the summary notes below. Investing Strategy. and Half.com.
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MAY 19, 2018
Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”
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MAY 25, 2013
In the original version of his post, Andy writes. Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Yeah, true.
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JULY 1, 2010
But I knew that to be a good decision maker I needed first hand knowledge rather than just a summary from my CTO. By the time of my second company MySQL was a much more robust solution and worked well when you had to read a lot of information but was less performant on “write&# activities. Attention to detail matters.
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DECEMBER 16, 2010
For extroverted people I recommend that entrepreneurs have an “executive summary&# slide up front that cuts to the chase. In this case I recommend the “executive summary&# version but not going into a “deep dive&# on the answer until you hit the detailed slides. It’s in their personality type.
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JULY 19, 2011
You can certainly get coaching from your VC on how to play the negotiations since they do it more often than you do. I have investment money at stake so I’m a principal in the negotiation, too. When you want to sell your company one day – the same rule applies. It happens. Why do I care? For them, this is just a deal.
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