Sublime

Venture investing presented opportunities to discourse with visionaries from a myriad of industries, play a critical role in the innovation life-cycle of companies, and create value and jobs in the process.

My belief is that true early stage venture capital (investing in companies that are raising at pre-money valuations between roughly $5M and $30M) is executed best when fund sizes are kept to reasonable levels. You should invest as early as you have conviction and as frequently as you can thereafter to build positions in companies over time. Investi... See more

even beyond research, there are a number of such more “exceptional” types of roles in the venture world. For about a year now, I’ve been tracking such roles that currently exist or once existed, and have come across a pretty broad set of titles: design partner, data scientist in residence, chief scientist, writer in residence, philosopher in reside... See more

Then, we decided to revisit fundraising (and do it differently). We set up an AngelList Roll-Up Vehicle (RUV). Through an RUV, any accredited investor can contribute, up to 250 individual investors in a single round. Our first step with the RUV was to email it to our customers. Why? Because fundamentally, I wanted to enrich the people that are maki... See more