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Thinking About Bodega

Hunter Walker

Today, one of our portfolio companies launched and was met with a strong, unexpected reaction, one I didn’t anticipate. Support not just sales, but item rental, item exchange and so on. As investors, we hope to help founders see around corners in order to assess and predict outcomes. And that’s the founder-market fit we seek.

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How VCs Make Money….Hopefully

ithacaVC

Typically, that might be 2% of committed capital per year paid quarterly. In its simplest form, think of profits as amounts returned to the fund in excess of capital commitments. Just like paying the portfolio company management team for doing its job. So, for VC1, that would be $2mm a year.