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Level Setting and Career Goals for VCs: What level are Midas List VCs actually performing on?

This is going to be BIG.

Luckily for aspirational baseball players, pitch velocity, spin rate, and just about every other aspect of playing baseball are highly quantifiable in real-time. You throw a pitch and you don’t find out the speed for a year or even longer. That pitch you threw a year ago, that was 92. Just how good is good?

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Lessons from a Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

When you back women and you’re trying to encourage the expansion of their network and the building of their personal brand, you cannot help but review all of your own actions after listening to the compounding emotional effects of their professional experiences. I don’t require warm intros. This happens in lots of other situations.

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Angel Capital Association’s Annual Summit is a Goldmine for Black Investors, Founders, and High Growth Startups Raising Capital

Angel Capital Association

The summit offers an unparalleled opportunity for learning, networking, and investment discovery, specifically tailored to empower the black entrepreneurial ecosystem. Additionally, the ACA’s Angel University pre-summit seminars offer deep dives into crucial topics like angel exit strategies and startup board management.

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When a startup’s founders are pretty much its board

TechCrunch

First, the startup’s board — despite its long list of investors — consists of only the three co-founders who are stepping down and one independent director, Peter Ackerson, a general partner at Fin Capital who himself became a VC just three years ago. Welcome to The Interchange ! It’s my first full week back in some time, and I’m excited.

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Three Words Entrepreneurs (and VC’s) Should Take to Heart

Both Sides of the Table

But as I rose in my career (and post MBA) I moved into a role in which I was to advise board-level executives on topics where I was expected to rapidly become an expert. This weekend was Yom Kippur, holiest of the Jewish holidays and the day of atonement. She started with a story — a parable — as Jewish people are wont to do.

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It’s time to hold investors accountable and abolish pro-rata

TechCrunch

Our options for funding were limited to a handful of blue-chip firms and networks of successful angels. It’s a change of power, and the sales pitch these VCs give to founders is that they’ll be true partners who will be with them every step of the way. It’s time to abolish traditional pro-rata rights.

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A Look Behind The Curtain: New Data On How VCs Raise Their Early Funds

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Source: DocSend’s VC Fundraising Report If expanding your network and practicing your pitch are important to you, you may benefit from pitching a larger pool of investors. from pre-seed to Series A. or really, jump on the Zoom meeting. But does it make sense to cast a wide net and contact as many LPs as possible?