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...of investors. Put these investors in three buckets in a Google Sheet or other database repository, and then do three tiers, priority, tier two, and tier three. Priority should only have five and then 15 each for tier two and tier three. So how do we
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...any other investor at the point where we're investing in the companies. You know, our biggest competitors are the status quo. It's going into academia. It's staying in a role. It's taking a different job. And I wanna keep it that way because that's a
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...only backed founders, supported founders, invested in founders with my own money,
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...say that founder references speak volumes and also lead to warm intros, and so I would go there first. Speak to your friends who are founders, ask which of their VCs have been the best, Place even more weight on their recommendation if the company ha
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because these companies you you can you could keep investing venture capital dollars later. Like, I think that's one of the main if you look at the money that we just raised, you know, almost 7,000,000,000 of that is for the growth fund. David George
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...founder to build the start if they're looking to build.
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...where they are for the amount of capital they're raising for the opportunity they're pursuing, and those things need to fit together. And sometimes that may mean a 1 and a half million dollar pre seed check into a 2 or 2 and a half million dollar see
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...to find an investor who came in as a very, very small minority partner in the GP to give what was just critical working capital. I mean, one of the impediments to people becoming GPs is just the incredible cost that it start that it takes to get goin
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...called the founder institute, which is a great accelerator program for companies. It operates in roughly 300 cities around the world. When venture capital would get started in a city or a country, you would see billion dollar companies emerge. Before
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...doesn't trip all over herself or himself, it'll get funded by basically anyone, and it's just about what price. If it's a company with a balance sheet, a lot of venture capitalists and growth equity firms really struggle to figure out, will it be end
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...for founders? And for what kinds of founders should be Okay. So if you are if you will have a physical product that needs to be manufactured, we all understand that you need a fair amount of working capital upfront to do that, and crowdfunding provid
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or a founder and an angel. And so you wanna look at all of that in the context of what's the relationship you want or need. Are you gonna need continuous on-site support from the VC, from everything from building your team through building your netwo
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...the founder doesn't trip all over herself or himself, it'll get funded by basically anyone, and it's just about what price. If it's a company with a balance sheet, a lot of venture capitalists and growth equity firms really struggle to figure out, wi
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...institutional investors that we needed to show such that it didn't look like what a lot of people call, like, a fund zero. We really wanted this to be like a true fund one. Absolutely. And in terms of the LPs, you were targeting, while reaching out f
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...think that founders hold them in great regard if that's the only way that that they're thinking about their business. So I'm just curious. So you're I'm sure that this is informed by some insights from the data. Right? What is it that causes you to,
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...to find investors? Did you try fundraising? No. I did not. This is a little controversial, but I think there are businesses that require venture funding and businesses that don't. And I think founders need to know which business they're building. And
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...meeting investors in a very casual way, so that they know you and they know that you're a very strong entrepreneur and they can, like, just invest on the spot versus like, this is how I raise my series d a trial pay. I had spent so much time with the
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if you have traction and if there is a big market opportunity and if it's clear that there will be plenty of competition later down the road, make sure you raise the capital and and make sure that you go fast. The tricky part is to maintain the disci
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