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Angel Investing: Know (What Motivates) Thyself

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In addition, investing in startup tech companies turns out to provide only a modest level of diversification… angel investments tend to form a high beta portfolio, with reasonably close correlations to public equity markets.

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Smoke vs Fire: Handling ?Preemptive? Interest From VCs ? AGILEVC

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Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations. after you close a round, decide up front whether you want to engage with them.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 2]

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billion fund (CRV XI), though the firm’s roots were modest (Rick Burnes started CRV back in 1970 with a $4M first fund) and until then CRV had mostly stuck to its knitting of early-stage investing with small-mid sized funds. Like many leading firms CRV used this opportunity to raise a huge $1.2

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

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in equity & loans which was ultimately worth >170x ($355M) when DEC went public about a decade later. Should there be a notion of “founder equity” for those individuals who put in the hard work to start a firm and build the brand? Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M

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Denouement

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Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. Rowe Price, hedge funds, etc. 2020 and Beyond?

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There Is No Subprime Model for VC

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Neither of these models is brand new, but they have emerged more distinctly in the last 5-7 years meaning there’s now realized returns to support the attractiveness of these seed or late-stage models in addition to the “traditional” own 20% early stage model.

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Why VC’s Don’t “Crossover” Invest

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Unlike a startup that might raise equity financing across several rounds all combined in a single balance sheet, VC’s do not simply commingle these funds into a single bucket to be allocated across all the companies in that firm’s portfolio. But Acme III is unlikely to invest in a super early stage company at that juncture.

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