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My Latest Riffs
- Dear Emerging Manager
- Helpful is a 10-Letter Word | Eric Sippel | Superclusters | S6E3
- DGQ 25: Were you successful because or in spite of your last firm?
- The Most Frequent VS Most Important LP Conversations | El Pack w/ Adam Marchick | Superclusters
- Energy, Intelligence, and Integrity
- NO Diligence is Ever Enough | Anurag Chandra | Superclusters | S6E2
- The Question-Off
- How to Not Get Fired When Changing Your VC Strategy | El Pack w/ Beezer Clarkson | Superclusters
- On Re-Ups
- How to Read Investors Like a Book | Thorsten Claus | Superclusters | S6E1
- The Work I Do with GPs
- Goldilocks and the 3 Secondaries
- If 198 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungoogleable Advice for Investors Were Not Enough
- Gratitude and Deal Flow
- Why I Don’t Pay for LinkedIn Premium
- How to Increase Dialogue with your LPs | El Pack w/ Kelli Fontaine | Superclusters
- Intro Policy
- 81% of America is Underfunded | Vijen Patel & Grady Buchanan | Superclusters | S5PSE1
- On GP Commits
- How Many Exceptions Are Too Many? | El Pack w/ John Felix | Superclusters
- How to Boost Engagement: Proven LP Relationship Building Techniques
- Uncompensated Risks in VC | Wendy Li | Superclusters | S5E12
- LP Relationship Management: The 2 Frameworks You Need to Build Trust
- The Inside Peek Into How Family Offices Gather | Samira Salman | Superclusters | S5E11
- #unfiltered #95 Loose Food-For-Thought from LPs
- Should VCs Scale? | El Pack w/ Screendoor | Superclusters
- How to Underwrite Angel Track Records in Less than 2500 Words
- Venture Capital is DEAD! | El Pack w/ Chris Douvos | Superclusters
- My Worry with AI
- We Need Mega Cap VC Funds | Nicky Sugarman | Superclusters | S5E10
- 300 WhatsApp Messages Later: Our Risk Framework for Backing Emerging VCs
- 22 Years in Venture Secondaries | Abe Finkelstein | Superclusters | S5E9
- Individuals as LPs and as GPs
- Inside the 100-Year Family Office | Josh Kanter | Superclusters | S5E8
- Vacation Responders
- THE Most Entrepreneurial LP Out There | Narayan Chowdhury | Superclusters | S5E7
- The Danger of Pivots
- How to Bet on the Underdog | Matt Curtolo | Superclusters | S5E6
- On Writing
- You’re Looking at Networks Wrong | Albert Azout | Superclusters | S5E5
- If 198 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungoogleable Advice for Founders Were Not Enough
- When an Olympic Daydreamer Becomes an LP Whisperer | Asher Siddiqui | Superclusters | S5E4
- My Advice is Better than Your Advice
- Why Individuals Can Be Better than Teams | Sean Warrington | Superclusters | S5E3
- Happiness
- You’re Doing Diligence Wrong | Raviv Sapir | Superclusters | S5E2
- #unfiltered #94 Is Conviction Black and White?
- How to Start a Single Family Office | Scott Saslow | Superclusters | S5E1
- Insider is Spelled with Two I’s
- Single Close vs Multiple Closes
- Scientists, Celebrities and Magicians
- Investors Should Never Read a Deck From Beginning to End
- Flaws, Restrictions and Limitations
- Winning Deals in 1968
- DGQ 24: What predictions did you have in the past that didn’t play out as you expected?
- Feeding the LP Beast
- 35 Biggest Investing Lessons from 4 Seasons of Superclusters
- When is a Market too Small for VCs
- Good Misses and Bad Hits
- #unfiltered #93 Shifting Focus
- Referencing Excellence
- Request for LPs (2025)
- Talent Networks are your Greatest Asset | Adam Marchick | Superclusters | S4E9
- Stress and Ambition
- The Dao of Investing in VC Funds | Jay Rongjie Wang | Superclusters | S4E8
- 2024 Year in Review
- The Pension Fund Perspective on Buyout Strategies | Charissa Lai | Superclusters | S4E7
- VC as an Asset vs Access Class
- The 4 P’s to Evaluate GPs | Charlotte Zhang | Superclusters | S4E6
- Three E’s of Fund Discipline
- The Holiday Special | Nakul Mandan and Ben Choi | Superclusters | S4PSE1
- The Year 1-3 AGM “Playbook”
- LPs Should Get Paid More | Ashby Monk | Superclusters | S4E5
- The Most Common Rejection Email for Transformative Startups
- Listening to the Heartbeat of the Market | David York | Superclusters | S4E4
- Developing Taste as an LP
- The Difference Between GPs who Can and Should Raise | Dan Stolar | Superclusters | S4E3
- Overwhelming and Underwhelming — When to Know You Are Just “Whelming”
- The Case for Concentrated Portfolios | Jeff Rinvelt | Superclusters | S4E2
- Micro(scopic) 10X Funds
- The GP Data You’ve Never Collected Before | Kelli Fontaine | Superclusters | S4E1
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- Hypoxic Training
- #unfiltered #92 AGMs, VC Funds, and the Personality Hypothesis
- DGQ 24: Guessing a number between 1 and 100
- DGQ 23: What’s the most interesting question you’ve been asked so far?
- When VC Funds Become Firms, Part 3 | Lisa Cawley, Ben Choi, Jaclyn Freeman Hester | Superclusters
- Starting from Yes versus No
- When VC Funds Become Firms, Part 2 | Lisa Cawley, Ben Choi, Jaclyn Freeman Hester | Superclusters
- Interviewers I Really Respect and Why
- When VC Funds Become Firms, Part 1 | Lisa Cawley, Ben Choi, Jaclyn Freeman Hester | Superclusters
- Poker, Event Design, and Vulnerability
- Shoe Shopping
- How to Build an Emerging Manager Community | Rick Zullo | Superclusters | S3PSE1
- Timeless Content for the Weary Investor
- Hustle as a Differentiator
- How to Get Access into Top Tier Funds | Felipe Valencia | Superclusters | S3E9
- The Value of Being an Outsider
- Why Trust is Built from the Small Things | Ben Ehrlich | Superclusters | S3E8
- What Limited Capital Does to Founders and Investors
