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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months. What is a VC To Do? I can’t speak for every VC, obviously. And it WILL be deployed, that’s what investors do.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. ” I love businesses that don’t lend themselves well to VC Panels at conferences or Demo Days. I would gladly work with you on a $50 million late-stage, complex financing. I like to hear their passion for the idea.

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Paul Graham and The World Out There

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The biggest question I think VC''s face right now is whether or not, in the future, the best founders will look and act like the best founders of the past. My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009.

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How to approach and make an introduction to a VC

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Then I realized that it's probably not obvious what the dynamics are around how VCs tend to get introduced to companies and what works best for people, so I figured I'd blog about it. A lot of VCs ask to be introduced through someone. So, if you ping me with "I'm still working my big corporate finance job. The Cold Intro.

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

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The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. In fact, that number is probably even more than the average VC fund has the bandwidth to make. Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. You get, if you’re lucky, a Powerpoint and some financials once a quarter.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

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” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. This is the same way VC firms, by the way. Bowery Capital).

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