By Semil Shah Two years ago, Kent Goldman, a former partner with First Round Capital, took the wraps off his own seed-stage venture firm and the novel idea that it incorporates. Specifically, Goldman said that his new firm, Upside Partnership, would give every founding team that it backs a piece of its own carry, effectively […]
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StrictlyVC: July 10, 2014
Good Thursday morning! For a look at the wonderfulness you could be getting in your inbox every morning, here’s the email version of today’s newsletter. —– Top News in the A.M. Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the U.S. government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, reports the New […]
A Small New Fund with a Game-Changing Idea
Unlike venture capitalists, who get to place dozens of bets in search of a winner, founders typically have one shot at winning the startup game. Kent Goldman, a former partner with First Round Capital, thinks he has struck on a way to improve those odds. Today, Goldman takes the wraps off a new, San Francisco-based, […]