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Manus: FranShares operates as a fund-of-funds, not a marketplace
“Actually, Kenny, it is a fun to fund because if you, because you're taking a management fee from what I understand from the deck. So you're managing our money and investing it into franchises that qualify, which is exactly what a venture capitalist does.”
Manus: VC investing requires reverse engineering startups from their three-year capacity
“Because I'm starting, with all these businesses, you really invest into the finish line. Right, and so what I'm trying to see when I invest in a business is what it's, has the capacity to be in three years. What it looks like, and then I work backwards from th…”
Jillian Manus personally commits $100,000 and plans firm pitch
“I'm going to come in personally at a 100,000. But what I also am going to do is I'm going to bring this to structure capital because this is so much.”
Structure Capital offers $250,000 seed investment to ShearShare
“That said we'd like to put 250,000 into your company.”
Slagh: Structure VC Increased Their Shift Investment to $350,000 After Diligence
“So much so that, that they came up to 350,000 dollars.”
Jillian Manus commits $500,000 to Babyscripts for Structure Capital
“So what I'd like to do is I'd like to do 500,000. And what I'd like to do with that is, and just to be clear I have a venture fund which is structure capital. I have my own. So I would like to bring this to them To either do all of the 500,000 or to break this…”
Jillian Manus offers to invest $100,000 in Feedback
“So, with that, I would like to invest a 100,000, and I know that you're gonna make this huge.”
Structure Capital ultimately invested $350K in Shift alongside Phil Nadel's $100K
“Her 100,000 dollar commitment turned into a 350,000 dollar check from Structure Capital, and Phil put in a hundred K as well.”
Structure Capital invested nearly $1M into Shift's subsequent $4M seed round
“In fact, her fund, Structure Capital, put in almost a million dollars in that four million dollar seed round, and that's on top of the 350 K they'd already put in.”
Smith: Structure Capital Evaluates Sandbox Commerce's Bridge or Priced Round
“The discussion we're actively having with a structure is You know, do we come in in this round, potentially, or do we come in in your price round in in the first quarter of 2018? And so that's and it's, so that's a, and they've been incredibly responsive. We'v…”