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early-stage investing
because we'd always ask for more. He cut us back. That was his strategy. Then he raised the $10,000,000 a round. He put it in a separate bank account and said, I'm not gonna touch this thing. I'm literally just gonna put it there. I don't wanna see i
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...really early, so they're gonna flush it out for a while. And the idea is it would graduate. It would graduate into the next round, which would be a classic. And a classic round, in my opinion, would be a first or second time founder, and this is wher
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...funds will, over time, feel pressure to rationalize their fund sizes. They'll they'll do it slowly and they'll do it quote unquote deliberately. I do juxtapose that though just with the thought that like, you know, fifteen years ago, it was insane to
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...multistage firms have a product for seed that changed the market. They write a $5,000,000 check at a 20 to $30,000,000 valuation pre or post, and that $5,000,000 check could be seven. So you're seeing rounds of five to seven at 20 to 30 pre or post,
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...stage fund? If so, that's the style standard deal that you can go get. And if you're not raising from a multi stage fund, there's a different deal on the table. That's a 2 to $4,000,000 round, maybe you can stretch it to 5, and that's being done at a
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...investing in. And there was this article written called the series a crunch, which everyone was assuming, okay. It's gonna get really hard to raise series a rounds now because those people have moved upstream. So everyone went from being a seed inves
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essentially the earliest round of a startup or the second earliest. Friends and family would technically be the earliest. But the first institutional money is often called pre seed or seed. Pre seed, we came up with because the seed round started to
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...funds come earlier. I'm just doing a hypothetical scenario. It's a 3,000,000 seed round. Accel wanna do 2.4, 2.5 of the 3,000,000 seed round, and then they've saved the rest for angels. They're not gonna let you come in and take 500 k or even 400 k a
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And so now you you have seed rounds that are like $4 or $5,000,000 To me, the purpose of a seed round is you have an insight about the future and you have a massive risk that you're hoping to take out. The ideal seed round is one which provides sligh
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...investing today. Prices remain unchanged and high. Increased competition as more multistage funds move towards seed, aware that they have to be in market, but they don't wanna deploy large checks at series a and b. There's also what I'm calling the r
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You said 150 to 250 is where you may be naturally thinking optimal seed fund size is. That's bigger than most people would suggest. I'm, by the way, in your account, our our new fund is 125 for seed, so ballpark. Why do you think 150 to $2.50? So I t
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that actually have credible traction are raising now. So even if you put aside adverse selection, meaning the set of companies are raising from insiders and insiders are leading the rounds, we're definitely seeing a set of companies who just can't ra
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