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The VC Stack Makeover: What Today's Funds Need - Webinar

The Seraf Compass

You’re juggling pipeline, diligence, founder support, LP management, and usually doing it all with a lean team. Founders share materials via DocSend, and the cap table gets vetted in Carta or Capboard Docs & Close : Final agreements and SAFEs are dropped into structured folders. Good tools don’t replace instinct. They sharpen it.

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The Constitution for Your New Fund: Strategy, Culture, Decision-Making, Budget, and Data

David Teten VC

If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. At Coolwater Capital , the Y Combinator for VC funds, we assess this as part of our diligence process.

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Headwinds, Tailwinds, and Crosswinds Ahead for Rising Startup Ecosystems

Revolution

There are some known unknowns founders and investors will adapt toforemost, a change in administration. With scarcer exit opportunities and LPs looking for returns, VCs may retreat further to perceived safety in traditional techhubs. Its that time of year again: prediction season.

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Warnings about investor limitations!  

Berkonomics

And what VC’s worry about More importantly, VCs will worry over several issues when looking at a company and deciding about an investment. Second, it is important in the first investment round to face the issues that may be required later by subsequent, more sophisticated, investors such as VC’s. White background.

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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups

Both Sides of the Table

But I have been in close contact with the NVCA, many of the major law firms and many of the major VC firms. Am I ineligible since I’m VC-backed? There is nothing in the rules that state that VC-backed businesses are ineligible. How do I amend my legal documents so that the Affiliate Rule doesn’t stop me from applying for a loan?

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Right here.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Sesie Bonsi.