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The End of Syndication

View from Seed

For early stage VC ‘s, Syndication is the process of sharing investments with other potential co-investors. Typically a good syndicate partner will move fast to try to build conviction about an opportunity, but will do real work to try to get to an independent point of view on the company.

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Side Benefits Ideally, a small fund could get you the following, but you have to ask to make sure it’s available: Co-investing opportunities. So what’s the point? Access to the partner.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. Kevin Lee, Executive Chairman of Didit, emphasizes the importance of having a content syndication strategy alongside a content creation strategy.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

Second, more damning is the “signaling problem.&# This means that if a VC invests in your seed round and does not participate in a future round the next round investor will think to himself, “well, if Big VC Co. Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. That founder wasn’t one of your angels. is now a VC.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Filed under Uncategorized.