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the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1
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20VC: Breaking News: Ankur Nagpal Raises $70M for Vibe Capital, What The Next Decade For Venture Will Look Like, Do VCs Actually Add Any Value & Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Take Them and When To Reject Them
- ▶ 2:49 Ankur Nagpal Spearhead, where their thesis, which now seems genius in retrospect, but this is maybe four years ago, was that founders will make great investors, so let's give them capital to do that.
- ▶ 13:06 Ankur Nagpal Starting Spearhead, giving me an angel fund, to now developing into our largest LP, where we're co-investing in deals together, but that's the kind of thing where these things cannot be rushed.
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 31:09 Brian Norgard The other thing that I've been spending a ton of time with is a program called Spearhead, which I'm running now. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Accomplice is also unique as it's a platform builder, creating incredible initiatives such as Spearhead, Maiden Lane, and Boston Syndicates, really moving the needle in seeding local ecosystems.
- ▶ 26:07 Jeff Fagnan He's like, I will, you know, and what you guys are trying to do here in Boston, how you're thinking about different things, spearhead, maiden lane.
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:41 Andy Bromberg And, and one more program to mention that I think is interesting is a program from a fund called Maiden Lane called Spearhead, which is giving founders education about how to become an angel investor and also giving them capital to invest,…