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How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Fund

This is going to be BIG.

When I wrote this post about trying to measure the fundability of your startup, I kicked it off with, “You can’t” and proceeded to share all the ways that getting your company funded feels a bit like a craps shoot, while still trying find a method somewhere within the madness. Are you raising a size-appropriate fund?

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Creating Better VCs: An Accelerator for the Dark Side

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These days, there are a ton of options for you if you''re a startup seeking guidence. We''ve done a lot to make sure startups get all the help we can get--and it''s leading to higher companies getting off the ground. Just like a startup accelorator, a VC program would also really help on the fundraising side.

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How to Build a Successful and Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio Without Really Trying

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Well, so far, the fund is clocking in at about 64% return, compared to the NASDAQ's annualized return of about 15% over the same period--so I'd say it seems to be going in the right direction. We should be willing to go through the firehose of crappy deals in their inbox for the money we make. And does it work?

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Give

This is going to be BIG.

To be a good VC, you're going to offer up a lot of time to companies that may never pay back a dime--or even to deals you never wind up doing. There's no magic flow of great deal flow. The return on investment for the time you put into others is extremely high--and will reap benefits for years to come.

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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

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The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Well, if you add it to your startup, it does a few things. One, it usually implies that you’re going to start going cash flow negative to accelerate growth. Was she just an anomaly or is there something else going on here? That adds risk.

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

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That believe has not only translated into the most diverse portfolio run by an investor who looks like me, with over 50% of the teams including diverse founders, but also into top quartile returns in our last fund. Contact me here to find out more about this.)

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At the Money: Finding Overlooked Private Investments

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She has been an early investor in companies that went public such as FIGS, Casper, and CloudFlare, as well as startups like Gimlett and Lightwell, that were later acquired by Spotify and Twitter. Inefficient markets can lead to unexpectedly better returns. billion dollar startups have a founder who came here as a student.