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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 have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns). This is hosted by NFX.

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Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift

Genuine VC

So rather than going into the details about how the combustion engine works (which you can begin to read about on their product page ), better to share what they’ve already powered: Triple Lift has delivered successful campaigns for brands like Gucci , Martha Stewart, and Puma just to name a few.

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How NextView Thinks About Pre-Seed Rounds as VC Investors

View from Seed

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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What Are Pre-Seed Rounds and Why Do They Exist?

View from Seed

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But we were cutting corners in the development methodology as well as in the code, in the name of increased speed. Excepting for cosmically co-incidental success stories, the fuzzy requirement stuff never congeals as a holistic engineering exercise. a is name, b is address, and c is tax percentage. Our profession is in trouble.