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Most VCs spend a significant amount of their time generating and evaluating new investment opportunities. When Hunter and I started our Homebrew seed fund last year, one of the common questions from potential LPs was "How will you generate deal flow?" Our hypothesis at the time was that we would generate investment opportunities from four...
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[AI summary] Screendoor announces the expansion of its team with Lisa Cawley joining as Managing Director to better connect emerging fund managers with limited partners.
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Every venture firm reports the "value" of each of its underlying investments. Typically, this is updated quarterly and sent to each of the fund's investors. The idea is that investors will then have a definitive view of the value of the firm's investments. Simple, right? But what is the "value" of a private company? Turns out the answer to that question is not so easy to determine, and, as a result, valuation reporting in venture is a mess. Prior to 2007, most firms held company valuations at the price of the most recent round. This was relatively straightforward and generally pretty consistent across funds. The rationale for this approach was that the best indicator of value was the last "market"...
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| | awealthofcommonsense.com

Today's Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book is presented by Innovator ETFs: We discuss: Surviving the upside when trying to hedge the downside The ideal client for a hedging strategy Using options to provide a buffer on the downside and capping the upside Why the payouts of a structured product are typically more appealing than the...
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