Fireside with a VC

Episode #26 – Stephen Forte, General Partner at Fresco Capital in San Francisco


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Talking about how to evaluate an investment opportunity and what drives a VC to invest or pass on a deal, the dynamic of operator turned VC, how to start a VC fund, how to raise LP capital, raising LP capital from small angels and larger LPs, evolving a strategy for portfolio construction to neutralize early stage risk and optimize the impact of the best exits, what percentage of a fund should go into follow ons and pro ratas, policies around pro-rata investing, getting into the details of financings at seed, late stage seed, A and into late stage large rounds and the behavior of larger VCs working with smaller earlier stage VCs. Video at https://youtu.be/sosRs_L07rQ. 


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