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Thank you everyone who attended our hashtag #NYTechWeek Funded Founder Breakfast. Startup Haven is quiet place for just founders and investors – no service providers allowed. Check out our founder and investor dinner and poker Thursday: https://t.co/nD8xpOQwph @Techweek_

Headed to Tech Week NYC. Excited to host Startup Poker 2.0 w/ @AgreeHQ and @EscalonGlobal We're almost at capacity... so click pretty soon if you want a seat... or slower if you just want the dinner & founder-investor-only networking. https://t.co/k5nIBJ97kC

Mixed blessing. I won the Silicon Valley Startup Poker 2.0 event last night. That's fun to do. But I also cringe a little when it happens. I love it most when other founders or investors win. Having played in at least 300 of these events over the years, I have a bit of an

First time back in the pool since pre-COVID. Not looking forward to what's coming this weekend.

I'm hosting "Why Every Startup Founder Should Play Poker" today at 3pm. Wanna here me blather on about how valuable poker is to startup founders and investors? Then this session is for you. https://t.co/mjKyJL7QUD

You're ridiculously wealthy, you can have anything, go anywhere, do anything. You're also C-level exec of several of multi-$B companies. Would you really spend 100's of hours building a Diablo IV character? Or would you just drop a few hundies. https://t.co/bQYLayjrDa

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His response: "Thank you, Bob. Understood, and agreed." That was it. Done and done. No wasted time or energy. So I spent that time and energy sharing this post instead. Hope it's helpful to someone.

For example, after the third or fourth spam-email nudge from one of these LP intro brokers, I responded: In my experience, this does not work for pre-seed funds raising less than $20M. There is just no extra vig to go around."

The solution? If you think some LP matchmaking resource is gonna be a boon for you, be explicit with them about what you are and what you want and that you understand that these things are usually not a fit. Then ask them to tell you that it is a good fit.

Additionally, layer in that pre-seed/seed venture funds are not their go-to asset class. They don't even understand it. All that sausage making -- The J Curve, The Power Law, Lemons ripening early??

Remember, most LPs don't want to own more than 10% of a fund. If you're raising a $10M fund, that's $1M check. You look like a lemonade stand to them. It's small potatoes and it's pass. Layer on top of this that you're an emerging manager with no track record. Hard pass.

Sounds good. Why not, right? Here's the rub. Virtually none of the LPs involved in those activities care about your cute little venture fund. Most can't even right a check small enough to fit in to your fund.

They will say things like: "Hundreds of fund managers, such as yourself, have profited from thousands of LP introductions we have made." "Network with 200+ attendees including 75+ influential LPs and 100+ industry leading VCs."

Emerging fund managers raising small funds (under $20M): I have a tip for you. Don't waste time on placement agents, LP Summits, allocator conferences and all of the other orgs that tell you they can help you meet LPs. Mostly, they won't. Mostly, they can't.

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I'm in DC to meet with founders/investors as we chart the course for a chapter here. Fantastic conversation with my Tyrkish Lyft driver from the airport. The convo inspired me to grab dinner at a Turkish spot near my hotel. Damn good!

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