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My Latest Riffs
- The Discipline of Ambition
- How to Get Six Top Quartile Fund of Funds in a Row | Aram Verdiyan | Superclusters | S2E7
- The Best Time to Raise from Big LPs
- Exit Windows Matter More Than Entry Windows | Jaap Vriesendorp | Superclusters | S2E6
- The Phantom Testimonial Corollary
- When Helpful is an Action Verb | Aakar Vachhani | Superclusters | S2E5
- From Demo Day to First Meeting: My Demo Day Checklist
- How a Pension Fund thinks about Venture Capital | Peter Teneriello | Superclusters | S2E4
- The Complexity of the Simple Question (DGQ 20)
- The Questions that Form an LP Investment Thesis | Winter Mead | Superclusters | S2E3
- DGQ 19: Does the overall level of the team make me question if I’d be a good enough to play in this industry?
- Diligence Questions: As Simple As They Are Complex | Youngrok Kim | Superclusters | S2E2
- The Proliferation of LP Podcasts
- How One of VC’s Biggest LPs Builds Relationships | Abe Finkelstein | Superclusters | S2E1
- What You Can and Cannot Control as a GP
- Winning Deals Based on Check Size (VCs versus LPs)
- “Who Else is Investing?” Is a Good Question
- When Trying Something New
- v28.0
- Lessons from Season 1 of Superclusters
- #unfiltered #86 Learning from Personal Mistakes, Excellence, and from Others
- Do Founders Like You For Your Money?
- A Case Study on Why LPs Pass on Great Funds | Jeff Rinvelt & Martin Tobias | Superclusters | S1 Post Season E1
- Thesis is a Lagging Indicator of Outperformance
- An Individual LP’s Guide to Investing Like an Institution | Samir Kaji | Superclusters | S1E8
- The Job Description of a Great Founder
- How Being Weird is a Deal Flow Superpower | Howard Lindzon | Superclusters | S1E7
- 2023 Year in Review
- How to Build a Multi-Fund VC Firm | Ben Choi | Superclusters | S1E6
- Big If True
- S1E5: Courtney McCrea
- How to Make People Feel Special at Events
- S1E4: Jamie Rhode
- Paying Attention Vs Paying Proper Attention
- S1E3: Eric Woo
- The Science of Re-Upping
- S1E2: Beezer Clarkson
- S1E1: Chris Douvos
- Launching Superclusters
- Non-obvious Hiring Questions I’ve Fallen in Love with
- DGQ 18: If you lived your life 1000 times, what would be true in 999 of them?
- Emerging Market Funds Seem to Have Longer Deployment Periods
- Timing is Only Obvious in the Rearview Mirror
- To Define or To Be Defined By
- #unfiltered #85 Relationships are Built on Actions, Not Words
- #unfiltered #84 Some Things Aren’t Worth Measuring, Others Aren’t Worth Carrying
- Are You Fishing in a Pond? Or Excavating a Pond?
- Are Conferences Worth It If You’re Fundraising?
- The Evolving Faces of Investor Relations
- To Court or Not to Court (Big LPs)
- The Cure to the Loneliness Epidemic
- Why No One’s Marking Down Their Portfolio
- The Science of Selling – Early DPI Benchmarks
- My Ever-Evolving Personal CRM
- #unfiltered #83 There Doesn’t Have to be a First Place
- #unfiltered #82 Sometimes The Best Thing You Can Have In Life Is The Best Partners
- An Investor’s Job is to Hear the Silence
- #unfiltered #81 Against All Odds
- Venture Capital Is Not Made For Trillion-Dollar Businesses
- The Tale of Two Risks: Market and Execution
- The Anatomy of the Future
- #unfiltered #80 How I Balance Time
- Retaining your Best Talent (Part 2)
- #unfiltered #79 After the Throes of SF Tech Week
- Another 99 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Un-googleable Startup Advice
- #unfiltered #78 The Gravitational Force of Accumulated Knowledge
- DGQ 17: What is your greatest strength that you are most worried about not coming across during an interview setting?
- Spilling the Tea on Deep Tech
- #unfiltered #77 When People Conflate Intentions and Incentives
- Three Lessons For Creating Unforgettable Experiences
- How to Retain Talent When You Don’t Have the Cash
- What It Means to be Antifragile
- DGQ 16: What is a story that you’ve told or have yet to tell where you either fight to hold back tears or fight to hold back giggles?
- Another 99 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungooglable Advice For Investors
- Chasing Revenue Multiples and Revenue
- 7 Lessons from My Time at On Deck
- #unfiltered #76 The Forcing Functions of Change
- How to Think about LP Construction
- #unfiltered #75 Why I Write Long Form Blogposts
- To Bridge or Not to Bridge
- #unfiltered #74 What If Events Were Story Arcs?
- v27.0
- Why Investors Talk about Grit
- Where Startup Pitches Go to Die (and How to Live On)
- Being Helpful
- The Curious Case of Disappearing TVPIs
- 2022 Year in Review
- Quirks That Just Make Sense
- How to Find Your Mentor
- How to Hire Your First Executive
- How to Take Control of your Fundraising Process
- How do You Know if You Should Professionalize as an Investor?
- #unfiltered #73 The Risks and Opportunities Created By Compelling Narratives
- How to Win Hot Deals
- #unfiltered #72 The Purpose of My Writing
- Five Tactical Lessons After Hosting 100+ Fireside Chats
- The Two-Part Question That Differentiates Just Another GP From THE GP
- How Liquid Is Your Network?
- The Non-Obvious Emerging LP Playbook
- It’s a Numbers Game
