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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

One of the major calibration pieces for me was where to find deal flow. As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. I sorted out pretty early that lawyers were a great source of deal flow. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

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Seed Deal Flow Tsunami And The Quick Kill

Haystack

As a result, I personally cannot keep up with all the deal flow. Surely, some will read this as unfair, and I understand that — so I wanted to write this post about how I sort through all the inbound deal flow and how my brain has been trained to fixate on certain threads and ignore others.

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My Secret Source of Deal Flow

A Crowded Space

—— This deal came through a back channel diligence call. I believe that these calls have two very significant benefits that make them good sources of deal flow. And I invested. 1) Pretense - in normal meetings with VCs and entrepreneurs, someone is always selling. Selling puts people on the defensive.

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Accelerators And Seed Deal Flow

Haystack

It feels like a tsunami of deal flow , and for me, I’ve outlined how I pay attention to inbound flow in terms of what gets priority. And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc.

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Paying Attention To Inbound Deal Flow

Haystack

About a month ago, I wrote a post about how the Bay Area seed ecosystem is generating deal flow levels that are nearly impossible to keep up with. To set the context, all new inbound deal flow comes to me via text message (20%) or email (80%).

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Thoughts on Organic Deal Flow

View from Seed

Similarly, the best kind of deal flow for a VC is organic deal flow. Even if you are just meeting a founder for the first time, I think of deal flow as being organic when an intro is made by a founder that the investor trusts well before an active fundraise process has begun.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

One of the major calibration pieces for me was where to find deal flow. As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. I sorted out pretty early that lawyers were a great source of deal flow. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.