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INTRO to Finance — The Cost of Capital
INTRO to Finance — The Cost of Capital
Over the last few months, we’ve been rolling out our new INTRO product. As part of those efforts, we launched a weekly newsletter called…
Bryce Roberts
May 14, 2020
Indie.vc 2020
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 that…
Bryce Roberts
Nov 1, 2019
Announcing Our v3 Companies
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 posts to podcasts to tweets…
Bryce Roberts
Jun 10, 2019
v3 Terms
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…
Bryce Roberts
Feb 6, 2019
v3
v3
4 years ago we kicked off an experiment to define and shape a path of funding distinctly different from the one size fits all venture model…
Bryce Roberts
Dec 31, 2018
Founder Field Trip: Tuft & Needle
Founder Field Trip: Tuft & Needle
Late last year we ran an experimental event we called Founder Field Trips. We had a few goals with the event.
Bryce Roberts
Apr 4, 2018
How We Think About Returns
How We Think About Returns
About 5yrs ago the team at Basecamp (fka 37Signals) stopped editorial work on a section of their site they called Bootstrapped, Profitable…
Bryce Roberts
Nov 10, 2017
“Venture Scale”
“It’s not venture scale”.
Bryce Roberts
Oct 9, 2017
Founder Field Trips
Founder Field Trips
A harsh reality of modern entrepreneurship is that most founders have never worked for a profitable company.
Bryce Roberts
Sep 19, 2017
Permissionless Entrepreneurship
Permissionless Entrepreneurship
I heard from a friend this week that their company was shutting down and, frankly, I was shocked. I wasn’t an investor in the company but I…
Bryce Roberts
Sep 13, 2017
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