{"id":28,"date":"2006-01-18T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2006\/01\/18\/kick_off\/"},"modified":"2006-01-18T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T18:03:13","slug":"kick_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/kick_off.html","title":{"rendered":"Kick Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we officially kicked off our venture fund formation with our law firm.  How exciting!<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re still weeks away from getting the paperwork done, but we&#8217;ll do it right.<br \/>\nRight now, we have a bunch of entrepreneurs on deck and we need to select the method of collecting money now while investing it while it comes in.  It is a slightly different way of operating than other funds, which seek to raise money first and then go out and look for investment opportunities.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an interesting way to work.<br \/>\nThe pros are:<br \/>\n1. We deploy money as soon as possible.<br \/>\n2. We collect management fees sooner.<br \/>\nThe cons are:<br \/>\n1. Early investors carry more risk, as the fund is not diversified yet.<br \/>\n2. More paperwork for us, and thus more time and money spent on that.<br \/>\n3. Management fees come in, but we won&#8217;t get enough to support ourselves.  Full budget is achieved when we raise the entire amount.<br \/>\nI think the most important part is that we get our entrepreneurs off and running. They need cash now and we shouldn&#8217;t hold them up&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we officially kicked off our venture fund formation with our law firm. How exciting! We&#8217;re still weeks away from getting the paperwork done, but we&#8217;ll do it right. Right now, we have a bunch of entrepreneurs on deck and we need to select the method of collecting money now while investing it while it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angel-investing-venture-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}