#166 "Best Advice for an Emerging VC?"

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What’s The Best Advice for an Emerging VC?

We’re continuing to push hard through the hot, long days of summer! Every week, we find and curate amazing PE/VC/LP content, pull out the best insights, and put a few of our spicy takes on top for you, dear readers. This week, we are pulling out one of our most popular posts from last summer with a few updates. Here we go!

Over the years, we’ve met with thousands of emerging VC managers and invested in / worked with hundreds. We’ve logged thousands of hours of research, reading, and listening to podcasts to pick the brains of some of the must successful VC and LP investors out there (who were all “emerging” at one point in time).

Recently, I was connected with an emerging VC manager who was in the early days of building his/her firm. They asked a simple yet important question. Based on all you’ve seen, “what’s the one piece of advice you’d give to an emerging VC?”

If I had to pick one thing, I would say “invest in the best companies you can find” and “write publicly about them.” “Yes, those are two things but they are tied together in times like this.” It won’t be as easy to raise funds as it was in the go-go days of 2020 and 2021.

Doing the work then writing about it forces clarity of thought, organization, and is a one-to-many method of sharing your work. Good writing also gets forwarded to other VCs and LP investors, leading to more great companies to invest in and more dollars for your next fundraise.

We’ve written a lot on both “investing in the best companies” and “writing publicly.” First, on “investing in the best companies,”, check out the following:

For more on “writing publicly”, check out the following:

Happy hunting, investing, and writing all about it!

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