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Laura Deming
ldeming.com
Moth is a fund focused on enabling exceptional individuals early using both grants and investment dollars. My goal is to establish a replicable funding model that aligns the economics to incentivize supporting individuals from exploration all the way through to world-shaping company.
Molly Mielke • Manifesto · Moth Fund
8. First order irrational, second order rational (h/t Chris Paik)
Talia Goldberg • Distribution and conversion models for consumer startups
Manifesto · Moth Fund
mothminds.com
The best example of this alternative product is Indie.VC, run by Bryce Roberts. Over the course of 6 years, Indie invested in 40 companies. It held the two key components of limited fund size and gave equity optionality through redemption clauses or equity buybacks. The results are encouraging, with a 51% IRR and 4.3x TVPI, while 87% of the compani... See more
Evan Armstrong • Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption
Austen Allred was homeless for 3 months when he was fundraising for his first company Grasswire, a media platform that lets everyone create collaborative news reports by voting on and fact-checking social media content in real-time. Austen was so broke that he couldn't afford to rent a place in Silicon Valley to meet with investors.
To still have a
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