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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. Second, more damning is the “signaling problem.&# This means that if a VC invests in your seed round and does not participate in a future round the next round investor will think to himself, “well, if Big VC Co. Great reputation.