Top 5 VC CFO Posts of Q1'23

These are the top 5 posts by engagement for 2022 from @TheFundCFO Newsletter.

Reflecting on them, the most popular had some sort of tool, playbook, or template. Readers continue to want actionable content that makes their lives easier - noted!

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1. #31 VC Fund Model & Budget - Free Download: The most common request we get is “can you share your high level VC fund model or budget?” There’s a lot of great work and detail on both out there. However, every fund is different. Sometimes it helps to have a very high level starting point when forecasting the future…

2. #32 VC Key Terms For Emerging Managers: These days, investors often get their start by building a successful angel investment track record before raising capital as a VC fund manager, at which point they are considered to be an “emerging manager” (funds I-III, typically seed+, 2k+ in the US). An emerging manager often has a different view of where the world is going and access to exciting companies in their focus areas…

3. #38 VC Resource Wednesday: Fund Models: A great fund model is a game changer - it can help a fund go from good to great, driving millions of dollars of additional returns for funds of all sizes and strategies…

4. #47 March Checklists (Finance & Legal): the checklists + the playbooks help us stay organized and continue to execute as we head into the third month of the year and the last month in the first quarter…

5. #52 Bank Expert Analysis: Eddie Duszlak: This is a guest post by Eddie Duszlak, who runs Virtuent, a systematic, market-neutral hedge fund focused on small-cap banks. He previously wrote a Verdad Weekly Research about quantitative models for investing in banks and we consider him a bank expert. We hope you enjoy his insights on the Silicon Valley Bank failure.

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