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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

He said they’d consider any “special situations” funds I was doing—at which point I realized that he had never even looked at the deck and had zero intentions of doing any real diligence. I wrapped up the closings on a few deals I had in progress—which I’m super glad I did, because those companies are now doing terrifically well.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. I said we had a lot of deal flow. 6) Due diligence.

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Advice for VCs from a serial founder

Austin Startup

This one comes from personal experience, months into conversations and after reference checks (which went well) one particular VC decided he didn’t have commitment to the space. Just don’t do reference checks ever until the term sheet has been issued and you’re almost ready to fund. A good CEO is likely a sales person by nature.

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