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Indie.vc 2020

Nearly 5 years ago we set up a sort of sandbox to begin iterating on different models and messages for a new kind of risk capital. One…

Announcing Our v3 Companies

From the day our v3 applications opened on Jan 1st to closing them on March 1st, we made a lot of noise. From…

v3 Terms

Not a week goes by that we haven’t questioned our decision to introduce a new set of terms into the funding landscape. They raise eyebrows…

Founder Field Trip: Tuft & Needle

“Venture Scale”

“It’s not venture scale”.

“It can’t get to venture scale”.

“It will never be venture scale”.

In my experience as an investor over the last 15yrs, this is far and away the most used reason for investors to pass on making an…

Permissionless Entrepreneurship

I heard from a friend this week that their company was shutting down and, frankly, I was shocked. I…

The Powerful Habit of Profitability

“One of the problems with raising money is it teaches you bad habits from the start. If you’re an entrepreneur and you have a bunch of money in the bank, you get good…

Checking in With Cotton Bureau

On a warm spring night, as the sun was setting along the Pittsburgh skyline, Jay Fanelli and Nathan…