Yesterday, Danielle Morrill highlighted an interesting statistic from Paul Graham in the Mattermark Daily. She referred to this tweet in which he shared a few stats about YC; the most interesting of which being “days since last contact” with their portfolio companies.

Then, she asked this question: “Are you willing to reveal these numbers for your fund?” and it got us thinking that this statistic should be readily available. Continue reading →

This blog will be a reflection of Karlin Ventures’ dynamic growth over time, but also of my personal development as a fairly new venture capitalist.

Although I spent some time as an investment professional at Innovation Endeavors, I never quite got the entire experience until I started Karlin Ventures 1.5 years ago. This last year and a half has been an insightful process, during which I’ve started to understand what it takes to do my job well. I’m not there yet by any measure, but at least I have a sense of what I have to do.

I wanted to start these posts to share with you my journey of becoming a better VC. Whether it’s tips or tricks that we learn along the way, our goal is to share insight and opinions Karlin Ventures has on the venture industry and investment trends.

Arteen, my co-worker and I, will be the main writers of this blog. Our hope is that these posts will help fellow VCs and entrepreneurs become more successful in building their businesses, and of course, in their own journeys in becoming better VCs.

Please stay tuned next week and subscribe in the footer below to read my first full-length post, an introspective piece that identifies four qualities it takes to be a better VC…

–TX