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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. million and opened another office in San Francisco.

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Off to the Races with Team Nextview

View from Seed

At the seed stage and as companies scale, helping the founders I work with identify and reach their goals, personally and professionally, gives me energy and purpose. And I’ve been fortunate enough to witness their startups scale from ideas to $1B+ businesses (and even an IPO in the case of Poshmark).

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Raising a Series A Away From Home

View from Seed

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Just like with startups, this is a hybrid question. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Five Posts I Would Have Written If Someone Else Hadn’t

Hunter Walker

Flying back to San Francisco, spending some time in my Pocket since I rarely read anything when it’s actually published. Here are a bunch of posts that I enjoyed, most VC or startup related, so if you don’t care about that stuff, skip this. What Founders Really Want From VCs – Fred Destin.

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Raising a Series A Away From Home

Rob Go

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Supercities, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, have traditionally attracted lots of newcomers into the network because that’s where the jobs, the labor pool, and the prospects for economic growth lie. The modern form of the venture capital firm — dating to American Research and Development Corporation and JH Whitney & Co.