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We continue our VC Fundamentals series with Portfolio Construction & Management — how do you build and manage a fund's portfolio as a whole, beyond each individual portfolio company and investment decision? We brought in two of the very best people in the world to help us dissect this topic: Jaclyn Hester & Lindel Eakman of Foundry Group. Jaclyn and Lindel have been early and longtime LPs in some of the best venture funds in the world: USV, True, Spark — and of course Foundry — and now also sit on the GP side of the table at Foundry. Tune in for a master class on how the best VC managers think about generating and optimizing fund performance.
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Topics Covered:
1. The bar for what "good" venture fund performance looks like in terms of returns:
2. Portfolio construction: how do you allocate the fund's capital across companies?
3. Balancing playing offense and defense:
4. Time allocation vs capital allocation within a fund:
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We continue our VC Fundamentals series with Portfolio Construction & Management — how do you build and manage a fund's portfolio as a whole, beyond each individual portfolio company and investment decision? We brought in two of the very best people in the world to help us dissect this topic: Jaclyn Hester & Lindel Eakman of Foundry Group. Jaclyn and Lindel have been early and longtime LPs in some of the best venture funds in the world: USV, True, Spark — and of course Foundry — and now also sit on the GP side of the table at Foundry. Tune in for a master class on how the best VC managers think about generating and optimizing fund performance.
Sponsors:
Topics Covered:
1. The bar for what "good" venture fund performance looks like in terms of returns:
2. Portfolio construction: how do you allocate the fund's capital across companies?
3. Balancing playing offense and defense:
4. Time allocation vs capital allocation within a fund:
Links:
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