Backstage Capital
fund on 3 shows · 6 statements across 2 episodes · said 35 times in 10 episodes since 2020
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- E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- 20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
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2020 26 mentions in 3 episodes 9 per episode
- 20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- 20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- 20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
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Calacanis: Arlan Hamilton selling 10% of Backstage Capital at $50M valuation
“She sold 10% ownership or is in the process of selling 10% ownership in her venture capital fund startup studio at a fifty million dollar valuation.”
Arlan Hamilton pattern matches for founder grit based on lived experience
“I do what I call pattern matching for grit. I do the same thing that other investors do with the data that they are used to, and the profiles that they're used to, and I just supply that to my lived experience.”
Backstage Capital invested in just 100 of 5,000 evaluated startups
“First getting to a hundred companies in less than four years, which is insane, right? Getting to a hundred companies because we saw 5000 companies. Because we only invested in two percent of what we saw, because there was so much talent out there that had been…”
Arlan Hamilton aims to return $1B to LPs within ten years
“I have a goal for myself to return at least a billion dollars in capital in the different ways that I do. It's not just out of one fund here or one thing there, but a total of a billion dollars returned to LPs and to myself and to our employees over the next 1…”
Backstage Capital scaled to 40 employees before downsizing to just five
“We went from one person, me, with a backpack and a dream, to three or four people who believed in me and really took pay cuts that you couldn't imagine, to having more than 40 people across two countries just a few months later to build the accelerator that we…”
Arlan Hamilton: Venture firms should act as stepping-stone universities for talent
“I started thinking of Backstage as less of a company or a set of companies that employs people, lays off people, et cetera, and more like a university where hopefully we are the stepping stone for you. You graduate from Backstage. Stage into something even big…”