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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later.

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

David Teten

I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.