RRE Ventures

“It's very hard to control an investment. I think as an investor The things that we can control is the decisions that we make, right? In terms of the entrepreneurs that we back in the markets that they're going after, right? And that, that are attractive to us.…”

“You know, in our case at RE, the Series A stage, we can put as little as two million all the way up to call it seven or eight for the initial check.”

“Because our fund size is two hundred eighty million, each partner can invest in anywhere from three to five seed deals a year.”

“I know that my LPs want to see two things in the first few years of the fund. They want to see early liquidity. They want to see us get well up into double digits in terms of net IRR.”

“Are they really ready to commit the 80 to a hundred hours a week for four to five years that it really takes to build a company?”

“All of us, you know, in the early stage of venture business spend our time really thinking about talent, and we could just as easily be talking about, you know, leading actors. I mean, we're looking for massively talented people who can play a leading role in …”

“Market-leading chip companies lost 90% of their value and were replaced by software alternatives, including by one of our companies, Skyhook Wireless, which was on the iPhone.”

“The ten-year fund structure with a couple of extensions doesn't really work. It was invented 40 years ago, And it creates a ton of challenges for everyone involved.”

“At RRE, there was a bridge round we did for what is now a very famous fintech company that got the company to a sale. Ironically, though, in retrospect, that was just a good company. And they should have just raised more money and kept calling. That company wa…”