🌱Seed-led Venture Capital Firm That Embraces Risk with Ash Egan | Ep. #9
🚀Constantin Kogan joins Ash Egan - Partner at Accomplice.
Accomplice (FKA Atlas Venture) is a tech VC firm with a crowdsourced approach to venture. Through platforms like AngelList, Boston Syndicates, and Maiden Lane, Accomplice harnesses the community to empower and fund the best founders. We invest in extraordinary people with big ideas across many industries, including cybersecurity, eSports, data analytics, SMB class software, emerging hardware platforms, and marketplaces.
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📒Rise of the New Crypto Mafia
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📚Edward Snowden "Permanent Record"
https://amzn.to/3jrdW3Q
📚David Khan "The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet"
https://amzn.to/2CyXTQZ
📓Crypto Canon Blog
https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-re...
0:00 Introduction
1:31 Ash's Background
4:01 Raising Money Advice
5:54 Common Pitch Mistakes
8:04 Presenting Vision
10:04 Examples of Vision Statements
11:03 Communicating Vision
13:02 Investing Without Product-Market Fit
14:52 Post-Investment Involvement
16:41 Board Seat or Passive Role
18:42 Investment Thesis
19:26 Investing in Competitors
22:02 Leading vs. Co-leading
23:26 Investment Stage and Size
25:03 Crypto Investment Focus
27:09 Promising DeFi Projects
28:42 DeFi Focus Areas
30:00 Layer One vs. Layer Two
34:20 Funny Crypto Stories
35:22 Recommended Reading
37:12 Blogs and Influencers
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