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Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley

Version One Ventures

However, the pressure of sky-high housing costs, salaries and competition for suitable candidates is causing start-ups and investors to rethink their approach to distributed teams. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, not a single company past “A” does not have a distributed team. Slack, Zoom). Slack, Zoom).

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Well, that time has finally come. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. However, we’d argue that for most smaller managers who are not brand names, it’s better to be highly identified in your niche than being a generalist. These firms focus on certain management philosophies or categories of founders. .

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. These design houses do a phenomenal job, but it is up to the founders to choose the right firm for their product, and then manage the cost and timeline for the design process.

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All Startups Should Consider Expanding In Multiple Geographies

Feld Thoughts

My post The Future Of Work Is Distributed received some good comments. ” It’s an important nuance, as there is a big difference between a fully distributed workforce (which the blockchain kids refer to as a “decentralized workforce”) and a multi-location workforce. .”

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Why VCs Invest in Startups with Gravity

Genuine VC

Estonia & India) and even other cities here domestically (e.g. From an investment perspective, we’re believers in the theme of an increasingly “distributed workforce” in which organizations are more frequently utilizing talent where talent is. But VCs want to know where a company is (going to be) located after they fund it.

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Why VCs Invest in Startups with Gravity

Genuine VC

Estonia & India) and even other cities here domestically (e.g. From an investment perspective, we’re believers in the theme of an increasingly “distributed workforce” in which organizations are more frequently utilizing talent where talent is. But VCs want to know where a company is (going to be) located after they fund it.

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