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What LPs need to know before they write a check
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What an Agentic Fund Still Needs From You
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How to Get Into VC Lab Cohort 23
Straight answers from the Cohort 23 AMA
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Q4 2026 Venture Trends Results: What 179 Investors Picked
What 179 emerging investors expect for Q4
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Help Us Name the New Generation of VC
We need a better name for the new wave of smaller, specialist VC firms. Here are eight options. Vote for your favorite.
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Adam Draper on Writing the First Check
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Venture Trailblazers: Mac Conwell
RareBreed Ventures, live with Adeo on November 12
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Two active LPs on their real criteria
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How Capital Flows From LPs to Founders
An LP, a GP and a founder on one call
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Three graduates on what the program taught them
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Q4 2026 Venture Trends: The Race So Far
133 votes in, and Physical AI and Robotics has pulled ahead. See where GPs and LPs stand, and add your top 3.
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What We Covered in the LP Archetypes Session
Tailoring the conversation to each LP
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Where the first checks actually come from
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The J Curve in Venture Capital Explained
Why a fund loses money before it makes any
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Inside the Agentic VC Stack Session
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How to Make the Most of VC Lab
What the managers who close actually do
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What to Expect from the LP Institute
Inside Decile Group program for LPs
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Why Precursor Keeps Every Fund Under $100M
Five funds, never one over one hundred million
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How Precursor Decides Without an Investment Committee
Three practices people called mistakes, now the strategy
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The Six-Month Test for Follow-On Investments
What actually predicts success after the first check
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Charles Hudson’s Advice for Emerging Fund Managers
The full recap of an hour with Precursor Ventures
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Approaching Institutional LPs as an Emerging Manager
Fund size decides which allocators you can credibly target
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What Charles Hudson Looks For in Founders
Why he looks for people off the golden path
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Pre-Seed Pricing Discipline in the Cursor Era
What a sixty billion dollar outcome did to pricing
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SF Tech Week 2026 Events
Seven in-person events for GPs and LPs, Oct 5 to 9
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VC Lab Cohort 23: The Era of the Agentic Fund
Your agents run the fund. You lead it.
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Q4 2026 Venture Trends
Venture has never agreed on anything this much. Vote your top three trends for Q4 2026, then join us live on October 22nd for the breakdown and an agentic AI demo.
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Top Decile Podcast: Tal Schwartz
Canada's policy lag is his investment map, not a handicap.
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Top Decile Podcast: Javier Cueto
Latin America does not need unicorns to win.
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Top Decile Podcast: Eran Savir
Revenue from strangers is the only proof that counts.
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Lines, Not Dots: How to Follow Up With LPs After an Event
Turn event conversations into LP commitments
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How to Close a VC Fund: A Step-by-Step Guide from Adeo Ressi
The exact LP closing sequence, from lead to wire
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VC Check Size: The Arithmetic Behind Every Investment
How fund size and reserves determine your initial check.
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Non-Consensus Investing: Where the Real Opportunity Still Lives
Why the real edge sits at pre-seed
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The Local Venture Capital Fund: Why Proximity Wins at Pre-Seed
Why proximity beats brand at the earliest stage
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The Small Fund Advantage: What Sub $10M Funds Do That Large Funds Cannot
What a sub $10M fund can actually do
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The Pre-Seed Fund: How to Start and Run One
Sizing, construction and fundraising for a first pre-seed fund.
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Zombie Funds: What They Are and How to Avoid Running One
How funds go quiet, and how to avoid it
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The Venture Fund of Funds: What It Buys and What It Costs
What a fund of funds buys, and what it costs.
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The Solo GP: How One Person Runs a Venture Fund
Economics, operating load and LP diligence for one-person funds.
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TVPI, DPI and MOIC: What Venture Fund Metrics Actually Tell You
What each fund metric measures, and which LPs trust.
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Top Decile Podcast: Vijay Rajendran and Amit Goel
Vertical first, AI second. Vijay Rajendran and Amit Goel built gAI Ventures to act as an institutional co-founder, building companies from scratch alongside domain experts.
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Top Decile Podcast: Nathan Maton
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Garrett Smith exited two medtech startups for a combined $600M, then built ReefHaven Ventures to write the first institutional check into founders at the convergence of biology, robotics, and AI.
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