Startup Founders Must Understand the VC Fund Lifecycle to Survive

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Founders: just as you’re not always running a formal fundraising process, VCs aren’t always deploying capital.

The traditional VC model can be distilled down to two critical phases: the investment period and the holding period.

Grasping these fundamental concepts is essential for founders to understand VC incentives, ask…