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Zach Coelius

14 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 3, 2019 by Zach Coelius · across every show →

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Jun 3, 2019
Disclosure
Coelius's first three angel investments were Branch, OneSignal, and Cruise
“Branch was the first one. A company called OneSignal, which is doing really well, was my second. Cruise Automation was my third”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 4:42 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019
Disclosure
Coelius writes checks ranging from $40,000 to $4 million
“I have four million dollar positions, and I have 40,000 dollar positions. I write checks into series seed or pre-seed, and I write checks into series seed.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 14:51 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019 bullish
Disclosure
Coelius led Mud Wtr's note while it grew 100% month-over-month
“I participated in a note, or I actually led the note, now it's like, 10 times bigger. It's still growing a hundred percent month over month.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 34:13 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019
Disclosure
Coelius filled his first $200K AngelList syndicate in 24 hours
“So I put up a 200 K allocation on AngelList and emailed some of my friends, and 24 hours later, it was filled.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 4:20 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019
Insight
Coelius: A startup pitch must work on a cold call at 9 PM
“I like to say, if you can't cold call a customer at nine o'clock at night, On their cell phone, while they're putting their kid to bed and describe what you're doing in one sentence, forget about it. You have no hope of them basically of selling a product unle…”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 6:22 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Coelius: 25% of my deal flow comes from my AngelList backers
“They send me a lot of deal flow, so I'd probably say 25% of the deal flow I get comes from that list.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 9:10 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Coelius: 700 AngelList backers have invested their own money in my deals
“So at this point, I have almost 1300 people who sign up to basically get emails from me and participate in my deals. 700 of them have put their own money at risk into deals with me”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 8:32 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019 bullish
Disclosure
Coelius scaled his Branch Metrics investment from $200K to $5M
“Like with branch, my first check was 200. My second was seven 50. My third was a million and my fourth was five million.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 17:57 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019
Insight
Coelius: Entry price is the only thing that matters in venture capital
“At the end of the day, the only thing that matters in this business is price.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 20:01 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019
Disclosure
Coelius claims zero failures across his first 40 angel investments
“So far I haven't, I've got 40 companies in the portfolio. We haven't lost one yet.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 20:52 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019
Insight
Coelius: Treat prior checks as sunk costs during follow-on rounds
“I basically like to think of every investment decision as an isolated event where I have, I like my sort of sunk cost is deployed capital, but it's the sunk cost. I don't think about that relative to the decision to participate.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 18:33 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coelius projects a one-third failure rate for his venture portfolio
“My assumption is, is that we'll probably have about a third of our portfolio will be losers.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 21:01 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coelius: VCs who cut my pro-rata will never see my deals again
“I've seen a number of funds who basically have come in and wiped out my pro rata or my follow-on, and those funds will never see another deal from me if I can help it.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 32:33 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
Jun 3, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Coelius manages $100 million in assets under management
“I mean, at this point, there's a hundred million AUM that I'm responsible for.”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 7:57 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
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