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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

In many cases, fund managers invest 1-5% of the fund size. They want you as a fund manager to be incentivized to make good investments, because you are staking your own cash too. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call. Typically, capital calls are done over the course of 3 years.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

In many cases, fund managers invest 1-5% of the fund size. They want you as a fund manager to be incentivized to make good investments, because you are staking your own cash too. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call. Typically, capital calls are done over the course of 3 years.

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What Makes a Great Independent Board Member?

Both Sides of the Table

you can build that with your personal peer network. We’re an investor in an amazing startup company called Apeel Sciences that creates a film that helps preserve fruit & vegetables with totally organic materials and extends the shelf life by 3+ weeks without using herbicides or pesticides. Diplomatic?—?A

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. ► January. (1).