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Speed Is What You Need

Babbling VC

You're a VC and LP's can't make up their minds and keep telling you to come back once you can show more? billion in aggregate. The market is hyper-competitive and you have to outshine the rest. If you're a start-up and that VC is taking forever to make up their mind, cancel them. Go get someone else to invest.

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Why the LP Outlook is Good for Venture and Startups in 2017–2020

Both Sides of the Table

This is key because in a permanently low-interest-rate environment parking large pools of capital in assets that benefit from interest is not possible so LPs seek “higher yield.” Here is the entire survey, which can also be downloaded and shared. If you need the original keynote slides for any reason — just ask.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. ER : And the rest, as they say, is history. Due to their bylaws and LP agreements and things, they can only hold public securities, like in the traditional sense. How did it come on your radar for the first time? And that was the moment where we found product market fit.

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