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How Venture Capital Decision Making Has Changed During the Pandemic

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Noting our own experience, we questioned whether the fast proliferation of virtual interaction introduced by the COVID-19 crisis had changed investor decision-making more broadly across the venture capital industry. Following initial decision paralysis, many venture capitalists have returned to pace.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Corporate VCs are at the table with all the other venture funds. Some corporate funds now lead rounds.

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Never ask anyone to be your lead investor

David Cohen

Let me explain why you should never ask anyone to be your lead investor. First, if you’re talking to a venture capital firm that writes large checks (>50% of the round size you’re seeking), just ask them to commit to investing. You never have to ask them to be your “lead investor.”

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A framework to think about pricing seed, angel, and venture capital rounds

This is going to be BIG.

That means investors are going to buy that much of your company at a time. It means lead investors can get to 10, 15 or 20% ownership depending on whatever math they have that makes their own success model work. It's a function of a few things. That's just roughly the equilibrium we've come to in this world.

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

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This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding. However, in a FOLD environment, it’s likely that the pendulum will swing the other way.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Belief #2: Capital is plentiful. Lead investors are few. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. Hacker News.