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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit.

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Exploring the NextView Platform? Start Here

View from Seed

Because of both lean startup principles and a thriving community of pay-it-forward individuals, we can all now build a little, learn a little, and then repeat. You’re able to deliver some level of value to an audience, then step to the sidelines to study what’s working and what’s not while standing shoulder-to-shoulder with your audience.

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The state of Q2 2018 pre-seed/seed-stage fundraising: Part 1 - crypto version

Hippoland

Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. These syndicates are often a bit “underground”, so you won’t be able to find them by researching via Google. From there, you can find various syndicates. Syndicates also know other syndicates.

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The state of Q2 2018 pre-seed/seed-stage fundraising: Part 1 - crypto version

Hippoland

Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. These syndicates are often a bit “underground”, so you won’t be able to find them by researching via Google. From there, you can find various syndicates. Syndicates also know other syndicates.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). 2) Market .