View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For early stage VC ‘s, Syndication is the process of sharing investments with other potential co-investors. Typically a good syndicate partner will move fast to try to build conviction about an opportunity, but will do real work to try to get to an independent point of view on the company.

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Syndicate Syndication Term Sheet Cofounder 207

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Diversification Finance 101 would tell you that, in the public market, you want to be in at least 20-30 names to eliminate a good chunk of the risk (as defined by the standard deviation of return) that you don’t actually get paid for. In fact, that number is probably even more than the average VC fund has the bandwidth to make.

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Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Deal Flow 134

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. Having one’s own platform is key, but content syndication with op-ed or guest contributions dramatically increases one’s reach. (E.g.,

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own. Most individual VCs can only support about 7–10 companies at a time.

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Liquidation Preference Common Stock Valuation Silicon Valley 48