How to Attract (and Scale) Deal Flow - 500 Startups
Most VCs think they can predict the future when it comes to early stage deals. At 500, we’re more realistic about our strengths and weaknesses as s...
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Investing in Startups (Guide for Investors: VC, Angel, Seed)
Guide for potential INVESTORS: An introduction to investing in startups and entrepreneurs
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What is the process you follow when investing in an up-and-coming startup? - Quora | Jason M. Lemkin
Jason M. Lemkin, Partner @ SaaStr Ventures First, I try somehow to identify before a first meeting if there is a >=2.5% chance of investing. Thi...
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Hometown Heroes: Where And Why Venture Capitalists Invest Close To Home | Crunchbase
Crunchbase News, 2017: “Public market investors have the luxury of being able to make, invest, and move their money anywhere they’d like. But the ...
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How 500 Startups picks investments - 500 Startups
How do you evaluate a potential startup investment? This is inevitably one of the first questions I’m asked when talking to aspiring VCs at industr...
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The top 3 things investors are looking for in SaaS startups | Medium
In the first part of this series I shared the quantitative data that I collected in my recent survey among more than 60 SaaS investors. Today I’ll ...
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The 10 Year Project (Lessons learned from over 300 investments) | First Round
To mark First Round's 10th birthday, we did a deep dive into the last decade of our investment data to surface some interesting and surprising insi...
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What’s The Optimal Portfolio Strategy for a Venture Fund? /
Last year I wrote a few posts (here and here) that talked about how skewed venture returns were. The key take-away graphic from that post is below ...
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USV Thesis 3.0 | Union Square Ventures
The commitment to a thesis is part of the fiber of USV--a shared set of ideas creates a framework that allows us to operate with focus and work on ...
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Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub - Harvard
Strategic factors are often more important than purely financial ones.
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Silicon Valley Writes a Playbook to Help Avert Ethical Disasters || Wired
A new guidebook for tech companies helps them imagine future scenarios where their tech might end up causing societal harm.
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Missing The Forest Through The Trees – AVC
We made the classic mistake that all investors make. We focused too much on what they were doing at the time and not enough on what they could do, ...
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How To Invest In Startups - Sam Altman
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before goin...
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Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? | SaaStr
Q: Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? This is an important question to understand. If you don’t understand it, it’s hard to und...
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