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Who Invests In Investors: Homebrew LP Shares VC Performance Goals, Importance of Diversity & What They Look For In New Funds

Hunter Walker

In cases of a new fund, like Homebrew in 2013, what does Irvine evaluate? We triangulate with investors, entrepreneurs and large company operators to assess probability of success and ability to attract in-demand entrepreneurs. Over the past five years, this has resulted in one to two new relationships per year.

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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

Who the entrepreneur takes money from (see this post ) is always more important than the terms. "  The problem has been that too-high valuations and too generous terms have spawned painful down rounds that squash the entrepreneur and his early investors.    If the entrepreneur can bootstrap.