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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. Kara will now be really involved with what goes on to successfully create and run a firm but while still handling her core duties of funding great entrepreneurs.

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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

Feld Thoughts

One of our recent investments, offered by Founder Collective (FC) – an eight-year-old manager with offices in Boston and San Francisco – is an excellent example of what we look for when we invest in funds offered by other managers. We also know many of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio.

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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. 4) Entrepreneur-defined funds. J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”. VC theses are often so vague that they’re meaningless.

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Growing our team: V1 is hiring an associate

Version One Ventures

Since 2012, we have made over 40 investments and have been busy building our fund, expanding and deepening our network, and most gratifyingly, working with our portfolio companies in their pursuit to transform their industries and the world. Executing projects of your own direction that help Version One and/or our portfolio companies.

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Announcing Version One Fund III

Version One Ventures

and Canada, offering portfolio companies strong networks and resources on both sides of the border. Our particular focus is in San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto/Waterloo , Seattle, and NYC. With Angela’s promotion to General Partner , we now have investment partners located in both the U.S. Acknowledgements and gratitude.

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Never Been Easier to Become a VC. Never Been Harder to Stay One.

Hunter Walker

As we approach Homebrew’s one year anniversary we’ll do a smaller scale meeting with our investors in San Francisco. It’s being a partner of conviction to an entrepreneur and working with them for several years. Succeeding with them but getting paid last. It’s not a lifestyle job. And I love it.'

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

Both Sides of the Table

I literally have a Google Sheet for nearly every portfolio company who is in the process of raising a round. As an investor I can tell you that when I meet an entrepreneur who knows very little about our fund or me as an individual it’s a huge turn off. I figured I was wasting my time unless the LP was leaning in on my first meeting.

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