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The End of Syndication

View from Seed

For early stage VC ‘s, Syndication is the process of sharing investments with other potential co-investors. At this point, the investor and the entrepreneur work together to develop their perfect list of potential partners, and then do targeted outreach to try to bring this investor into the round.

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

But in a FOMO world, more investors are willing to take a chance on a founder that they don’t know, but seems to match some of the heuristics of other high quality founders. But the risk to founders is that these investors may not be very committed partners and might quickly disengage if things go sideways.

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8 Expectations Of Investors Who Risk Their Own Money

Startup Professionals Musings

A better approach is to first understand who these people are, why and how they invest, and then focus on the ones who are the best match for your particular startup stage, location and industry. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate

Genuine VC

Term-driving investor approach – An entrepreneur finds a lead (quasi-)institutional venture investor to price and set the structure/dynamics of the round, working together to bring in additional syndicate partners (either/both other funds and individual angels). larger check writers have a greater tendency to lead rounds).

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8 Angel Funding Realities In Search Of A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

A better approach is to first understand who these people are, why and how they invest, and then focus on the ones who are the best match for your particular startup stage, location and industry. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Why We Invested in Flyp: Unlocking Recommerce Supply

View from Seed

Flyp’s workflow automation capabilities and AI-driven inventory matching system empower these entrepreneurs to develop and scale their at-home reseller businesses. The company has recruited a network of tens of thousands of small online resellers, frequently individual stay-at-home entrepreneurs, onto its platform.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

B2B software can no longer just get away with crappy UI… it has to at least match the ease of use and aesthetics of all the consumer web products users love. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? 15 hours ago davidbeisel: How VC firms die: greed, complacency, and strategy drift.

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