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nchirls

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About nchirls

Seed Investments at betaworks

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    Indeed, they're quite wonderful and I'm very lucky :-)

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    One more point regarding the bonus question. I don't believe that Wall Street properly accounts for the amount of risk traders take. Should that trader receive 10% of the money he …

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    Appreciate this perspective. Not hard to imagine why working with friends would be fun. I have many friends who still work on Wall Street or in the financial industry. I don't disr…

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    I'd agree with this. YC is a wonderful program for both startups and entrepreneurs, PG is a godsend for these groups, especially in past years when seed funding was harder to come …

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    Yes, the point is that in most cases, at some point these companies will raise institutional VC. But whereas in the past couple years, I've seen founders blindly take seed capital …

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    Indeed, I'm defining seed investor largely in the context of a "seed round"...which these days seems to be anywhere btwn 500k - 1.2M. There are some 2013 startups that take a bit o…

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