Fully Vested

Big Potato Energy

Episode Summary

We explore venture debt funding as an alternative for startup funding and review AngelList’s data on diverse seed-stage investing being the best way to invest at the earliest stages.

Episode Notes

General

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Venture Debt

• Section starts at 6m25s
• SaaS Focused Scaleworks Spins Out Debt Fund (Mary Ann Azevedo for Crunchbase News)
• Lighter Capital

WeWork Debt Update

• Section starts at 27m30s
• Goldman Sachs to Extend $1.75B Credit Line to WeWork (Jason D. Rowley for Crunchbase News)

Venture Returns

• Section starts at 35m05s
• Angel List's Startup Growth and Venture Returns: What We Found When We Analyzed Thousands of VC Deals
• Angel List's Startup Growth and Venture Returns Report (Fair warning - 26 pages and lots of detailed math about Power Laws)

About The Co-Hosts

• Jason D. Rowley is a data journalist for Crunchbase News, volunteers with the Python Software Foundation as an organizer of Startup Row at PyCon US, and sends occasional newsletters from Rowley.Report.
• Graham C. Peck is a Venture Partner with Cultivation Capital and additionally helps companies build technology development teams in partnership with Brightgrove and other technology development organizations.