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This is a running list of articles I find useful as an emerging fund manager. Growing a VC Fundraising Tips and Portfolio Construction Understanding Portfolio…

Kirby Winfield

Founding General Partner, Ascend

Aug 24, 2020

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This is a running list of articles I find useful as an emerging fund manager.

Growing a VC

Fundraising Tips and Portfolio Construction

Understanding Portfolio Construction

How Emerging Managers Should Think About Fundraising

Deck Review With Chris Douvos

Fund Recycling for Early Stage VCs

Not All LP’s Invest in Emerging Managers for the Same Reasons

How to Build Back to Back to Back to Back 3x+ Funds

Brokerage Transfer Advice Post-IPO for LP Shares

How to Build a Better Data Room

Does Ownership % Matter?

Inside Information and the Case for Active Investing / Following On

Lessons From Fund I

One LP’s Perspective on Emerging Manager Fundraising

Why Institutional Investors Should Double Down on VC

What LPs Look For in Due Diligence for Emerging Managers

Tips For Fundraising Process Management

Why Invest in Emerging Managers? (Data Driven Case for EM Allocation)

What LPs Care About 3 Years Into Fund I

13 VC Decks That Closed LPs

Common Themes of Successful VCs

All About the Benjamins

“The deck comes later. First we go look at the thing.”

[ MEDIA ]

Lake Union, test day. The rig ran for eleven minutes before the founder called it a success.

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A founder who could explain the physics in one breath and the business model in the next.

A prototype we could see and touch, not a projection.

A cost curve that gets better with scale, not worse.

If you’re building something we’d want to see in a kayak, read our founder resources toolkit before you pitch us.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kirby Winfield, General Partner

Kirby founded Ascend to write the first institutional check into Pacific Northwest technology companies. He’s on the board of 12 portfolio companies, including Bean Box and Endurance Energy.

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