Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2021
When you first start your career as an investor (or when you first start writing angel checks) your main obsession is “getting into great deals.” When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.” It was ~30 days from bankruptcy.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 1, 2016
.” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. A normal VC fund raises a new fund every three years if they are strong performers. We’ve also become very adept at partnering with seed funds.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” ” 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 Why is this?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 7, 2015
I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. Even if one disagrees with the premise, why would anyone feel the need to attack Mike for writing it? With strong leads (VCs, seed funds or large angels) there is an unwritten Pottery Barn Rule. This is a hard one.
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
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). > -jeff.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. Of course a group of 10 seed funds can’t fix the prices of a market. That was written in September 2008.
Frank Addante
JUNE 4, 2006
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