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Today’s show:
Cendana’s Michael Kim joins Jason for a deep dive on fund of funds, their Strengths and “Achilles heel” (3:32), to examine alpha, beta, and quality indices in early-stage investing (28:38), current market trends, future startup outlook (45:11), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Michael Kim joins Jason.
(3:32) Overview of Fund of Funds, their Strengths and “Achilles heel”.
(7:01) Attraction factors for investors in pre-seed and seed startups.
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(12:04) The rise and definition of “micro VCs” with insights by Michael Kim.
(15:16) How the early seed stage carved a niche and its growing appeal to LPs.
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(23:12) Fund enablers and the importance of “consistent returns”.
(28:38) Examining alpha, beta, and quality indices in early-stage investing.
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(35:29) The significance of portfolio management as networks and building a ‘why' for founders to pick you as an investor.
(41:25) The value and longevity of investor networks.
(45:11) Current market trends, future startup outlook.
(48:08) Things have shifted and Michael explains why seed is the new series-A and pre-seed is the new seed.
(52:10) Demographics of founders seeking investment.
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LINKS
Check out Cendana Capital: https://www.cendanacapital.com/
Watch other episodes with Micheal Kim:

E1075: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSOhe-FnTJE
E1879: https://youtu.be/1Dcu5BfnE_c?feature=shared

Check out the Liquidity Podcast: LiquidityPod.com
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