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My wife and co GP Stevie is an LP in a few funds. If it comes up she will absolutely remind you—because of how pissed off she is about it. Not all LP’s are created equally—Stevie decided to be an LP because she was told it was a great way for women to get generational…

Across the board, almost every stat in venture capital is down between 2021 and 2022. It’s sorta depressing to see. But interestingly, there was one major data point that reached record highs in 2022: the percentage of early stage deals that corporate venture firms are in participating in within fintech went up from 55% in…

Ian’s Note: If incubation and working with Vol. 1 Ventures sounds interesting to you after reading this, shoot me a note by replying to this email! Over the past few months we’ve been working on building an incubation program at Vol. 1 Ventures, and have been working with a few companies we hope to spin…

Tech may be a bubble cultural but no sector is immune to the global economy. And a lot of tech is tied to the US economy, making the interest rate changes a critical topic to understand. The Fed shifted from years of having 0 interest rates in an effort to spurt growth, to 7 times…

There are so many differences between creating a company and starting a venture fund; it’s hard to figure out where to start. The work is different but so is the thinking and the mindset you need to have to be successful. Something I’ve noticed is shifting my thinking from short term to long term. As…

2022 was a very weird for the whole tech industry, but it was particularly challenging for VC’s. In the public markets, valuations for tech companies were getting slashed left and right—VC’s needed to figure out how that affected the private markets. And fintech was one of the hardest hit sectors—valuations fell dramatically and VC dollars…