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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

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The reality is the best angels, the best seed funds and the best A-round investors have choices about whom they will refer deals to and are very selective. I try hard not to fall prey to “The Narrative Fallacy” where your own past experience overly guides your decision-making in the future.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Let’s set up a framework. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. If you have raised a limited amount of money from angels, accelerators or seed funds be very careful about having a high burn rate.

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

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I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. Great seed investors like Bryce Roberts / OATV (and other great ones like Floodgate , Founder Collective , Information Arbitrage or Rincon Ventures ) still get all the dealflow the need.