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“How corporates can finally speak VC language and win startup partnerships”
...partner with startups and be clear in the communication. That is what everybody is searching for. They're searching for corporate that understands
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...startups that come out of those. We do love to partner with people that come out of special companies and even better if they had a special role within that company. Sean, how do you wrestle with the valuation issue where the space you like to play,
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And what they can do is offer a small check to help that person gain the confidence to spin out and partner up with their friends. And then we'll play the role of a cheerleader and the role of almost a fundraiser where they'll get a nice valuation up
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...startups, which means that there's a lot of fun and chaos happening pretty much every day. And right now, because we're working with three corporate partners, we're essentially launching six new companies a year. And if we bring on a fourth corporate
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...can break up because the types of things that they gravitate towards are so disparate or so unrelated to each other that in small partnerships,
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We consider ourselves at Startfast very founder friendly. And whenever I'm talking to founders about this, I'm like, hey. Just look at me. Like, I liked my investors enough that I joined them after we sold our business. So it it definitely gives us a
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by being very close to founders. And so even as we build a muscle to back companies at the later stage as well with our with with our growth funds. We believe that one on one relationship with the founder is paramount. So we we strive as we scale to
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investing in. You can decide to make a request for an allocation, right, that can be as low as 10 k. You can then after we do invest in a company, you can see founder asks and see founder updates, right, and not have to dig through your email to figu
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...startups have a chance to do, and then launching a new company around them. And when I think about corporations and just corporate innovation in general today, it's almost like every corporation has this big bucket of problems, You know? And you spri
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Listen. I think that throwing yourself into the venture ecosystem by angel investing is is really powerful. It doesn't have to be with big checks. Right? It doesn't have to be 10 k. Right? Like, there's there's so many different ways to dip your toe
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All in on the diligence process. Yeah. Yeah. So let me explain the diligence process, but let me just finish that last thought. I I really do believe this this helps change outcomes. Like, so we just raised our new fund, and as part of that, we did t
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I need to get my game? The reality is, like, there's there's not a specific person or or brand where I'm like, oh, shit. I'm fucked. That's part of why my job is to get to know people early. In our last fund, in fund five, we did this analysis. We kn
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a nascent idea? So it's funny. Our our biggest exits have always been other people's ideas. Right? They come to us and pitch us, you know, whatever they're pitching us. So, you know, over half of our deals are other people's ideas. Our quickest exits
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So we are we're pretty obsessive about evaluating the individual. And I suppose we we have this internal phrase we use called, the cofounder of convenience, which is the cofounder you found who just happened to be your best friend available at the ti
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data recall, meaning, you know, we have an incredible network. Right? This is one example. And so many venture capitalists spend their days setting up meetings with founders and saying, hey. Who can I introduce you to to help unlock, you know, your y
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...building, but you have a business to run and and that's priority number one.
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