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Here's How to Invest Like a Rich Person

The Motley Fool

Morgan Private Bank 2024 Global Family Office Report found that rich families invest about 46% of their portfolios in "alternative assets," which the survey defines as hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, and venture capital (VC) funds. Wealthier investors are expected to be better-situated to tolerate those risks.

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Half Of All VCs Beat The Stock Market

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

The best way to know what managers to pick is to be in the startup business in some way. The Gotham Gal and I have been investing in the VC funds of managers we know well and have worked with closely on boards of startups for about fifteen years now. All you need to do is watch how people behave to know who is good and who is not.

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Accessibility as an Advantage in Venture Capital: Why Creating Value for Everyone in the Community Wins

This is going to be BIG.

Just yesterday, I got a note from a female founder of color: “Earlier this year you invited me to one of your off sites and that made a huge difference for me as a founder raising capital for my first company… I'm just looping back with the individuals who were helpful and who said "yes" to me during a pretty grueling process.

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Why Don't More Emerging VCs Have Coaches?

This is going to be BIG.

When I joined First Round Capital, I started off with a bang. I was no longer the CEO of my startup. One of the reasons I’m doing a few coaching assignments is that investor education and support is an area I'm very interested in. Drop me a line if you’d like to inquire. ) Did I take advantage of a coach early on?

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Big Tech Goes Nuclear

The Motley Fool

Not all of us can be Warren Buffett, because he can totally avoid things he doesn't understand and still make so much money with all that capital and all that acumen. Startups have raised about 1.6 billion inventure capital to develop these bots. But those are for the private investors. Those accredited investors.

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The 25 Most Active Independent Sponsors on Axial

Axial

In terms of where to slot us from an investor type – we are unique in the sense that we have owned and operated our own businesses since 2001, invested our own capital and also raised capital from LPs (both institutional and smaller accredited investors).”

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Moving Fast, Breaking Things, and the Support of Disruption

This is going to be BIG.

Even if they were, startup employees usually don't hold more than 10% of the company's overall stock and less than 10% of the company's employees were black at the time of the IPO. And investors? Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk. They will expect nothing less of their investors.

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