This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
I know it’s a bit of a cliche that VCs say they like to be helpful, but I really do think of this as a service job—not one that’s purely about asset allocation. What I would like to do is to find ways for the community platforms and events I’ve built to continue on past my involvement—but I have time to figure that out.
Revolution
MARCH 1, 2023
VC dollars are at risk, we conducted a historical analysis of top quartile fund managers over the past quarter century (as far back as we could access reliable Cambridge Associates data). For a VC, if a fund has valued its portfolio appropriately, there is not much to worry about. But what could that look like?
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This is going to be BIG.
JULY 8, 2013
I usually direct people to this post --still hanging atop the search rankings for " How to be a VC analyst" years later. In VC, no one''s investment gets bought on the first day, or the second day, or the third day. Well, let me be the first to tell you. 5) It takes a long time to be successful. And most of all, I love people.
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 23, 2012
I'm often the last one to leave an event, held back by the most persistant of entrepreneurs trying to squeeze as much advice as they can out of me. Often times, the advice is terrible or impractical. Try and figure out exactly what a startup had to show at the moment a VC chose to invest in them. They don't stress test.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 22, 2018
This will be the post where I dangerously attempt to walk the minefield of a white male VC opining on the topic. Besides, how effective of a filter is it that someone can get coffee with a non-VC and convince them that you'd want to see the deal? That pitch has never excited any VC in the history of VC funding.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 30, 2018
VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across all of these deals. It’s not uncommon for a VC to ask you how much capital you’ve raised and what the post-money valuation was on your last round. So why does a VC ask you?
TechCrunch
MAY 28, 2022
The storied venture firm is known to react to macroeconomic events with grand memos aimed at portfolio companies and sometimes the entrepreneurship scene at large. Sequoia takes things seriously. Most recently, Sequoia created a 52-slide deck, first reported by The Information , titled “Adapting to Endure.”
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