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by danshapiro 16y ago
Thanks for the pointer! It's a great read and I hadn't seen it before. I couldn't find any good resources that explained VC behavior in terms of concrete economics, so I wrote this - hopefully there's enough novel information in it to be
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by danshapiro 16y ago
A lot of them can't, and we'll see the fallout from that over the next several years!
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by danshapiro 16y ago
Actually the best VCs get even better terms - e.g. 3-30. But I've heard VCs say that anyone who comes out with sub-market terms in their fund has a positioning problem: the best returns come from a tiny number of firms, and the returns dwa
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by danshapiro 16y ago
I don't know, but I have a guess. Investors model VC returns very carefully and use them in their portfolio to achieve a certain kind of risk profile. That model is based on each dollar being invested once. If it's invested more than onc
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VC Insanity: How the economics of venture funds explain the crazy things VCs do(danshapiro.com)
99 points by danshapiro 16y ago|19 comments
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by danshapiro 16y ago
VCs get away with it because: 1) They have reputations; 2) They have the money 3) It's a practical necessity for someone who looks at a dozen pieces of IP daily. None of those cases apply to you, and as a general rule, no competent entrepre
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by danshapiro 16y ago
I love this idea. But I'm not seeing the thing on your site that makes me believe you can do this (e.g. the big PORTFOLIO button). How do I get that confidence?
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by danshapiro 16y ago
Lawyers will have many opportunities to subtlety shift a discussion one way or another - in fact, they might not even realize they're doing it. You are right to be concerned about subtle and systematic tilt in their perspective, and I woul
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by danshapiro 16y ago
At Ontela, we thought that working virtually from home was awesome until we got office space. Then we realized that the office increased our productivity massively. It was a combination of no home distractions, less inclined to do pseudo-
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by danshapiro 16y ago
There's probably a good way to do this. The one time someone gave me a resume with a face on it, it came across as creepy and desperate, and I ditched it immediately.
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by danshapiro 16y ago
I agree. Friends always get a bye on the filter, but I'm way more likely to look at someone who has 150 follows and 50 followers than someone with 2k of each (which means they're just playing the follow me/follow you game).
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by danshapiro 16y ago
The number of new follows I get isn't huge, but it's enough that I won't check each one for content. I'm sure I'm not the only person who wishes that follow mails contained the last 5 tweets from the follower... that'd help things immensely
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by danshapiro 16y ago
I pass no moral judgment on frequent tweeters. But given that I only follow folks who tweet infrequently, any frequent tweeters quickly dominate my twinbox. So that approach doesn't work for me. I do make exceptions for transient events if
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This is my Twitter algorithm. What's yours?(danshapiro.com)
20 points by danshapiro 16y ago|12 comments
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by danshapiro 16y ago
I get 37S's philosophy, and I thank them for being so transparent about their goals, so that I can be sure never to use one of their products. Entrepreneurial companies, by their very nature, change. It's hard for me to fathom why a startu
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by danshapiro 16y ago
It always confuses me when the energy company promotes energy efficiency. It seems like economic incentives exist for both promoting efficiency, reducing it, and greenwashing (doing one while promoting the other). It would be really inter
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Why you can't read a VC(currentlyobsessed.com)
42 points by danshapiro 16y ago|6 comments