signaling risk

“VCs, VCs are big data decision makers. Think about us as pattern recognizers and machine learning, deep learning algorithms that feed on data. And the more data we take every data point and make decisions and judgment based on those data points and signaling r…”

“Signaling risk is this funny thing because most founders are worried about it, but we have never actually seen a situation in which it hurt. The context in which most people worry about it is they say, well, if I receive this round from Sequoia, but then for w…”

“A lot of entrepreneurs underestimate the negative effect of signaling. They raise from this multi-stage funds, and this multi-stage funds are incredibly focused, and typically they follow on on about 30% of their earlier stage investments, and that's an incred…”

“One of the reasons that it was important to commit to doing your pro rata was there was this thing called signaling risk, which people were worried about. And that still is relevant today, but less relevant.”

“No, there's no signaling risk because some of the companies that are the absolute rock stars in our portfolio, like they grow beyond our ability to even fund them given the market dynamics.”

“It's going to look badly if they were in your prior round and don't do the next round. That ends up being a flag in a lot of cases.”

“The signaling risk, I feel like is the single most overstated part of the ecosystem.”

“I think signaling is overrated. I think that companies that perform well always raise money. And companies that perform so-so Can sometimes benefit from a positive signal, but usually, usually not being able to raise is a function of not getting product market…”

“I think there's so much money sloshing around and so many folks have so many different funds that signal risk is, is more of the past. I mean, if you look at the continuum of entrepreneurial power versus investor power over the last couple of decades, It's onl…”

“I think it's total bullshit.”