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Stout Street Capital

@StoutStreetVC

Stout Street Capital is a Denver based VC firm focused on investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies in underserved regions, founder of @unmetconference DM

Denver, CO Katılım Kasım 2018
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John Francis
John Francis@hermitvc·
@heylizelle Yeah, to be fair the money in VC has always found comfort in a herd. The redundancy isn’t just with startups ideas/processes/GTM etc.. a vast majority of VC firms and their strategies are indistinguishable from each other.
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John Francis@hermitvc·
@Zecca_Lehn @bryce The issue stems from "redlining in VC" where institutional LPs impose arbitrary and unscientific barriers, like insisting on a 100M fund size before considering investments. These hurdles hinder access to best performing funds and kills new ideas.
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@atShruti It’s not the place it’s the mindset that matters, founders can build anywhere
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John Francis@hermitvc·
The main reason the VC industry has a diversity problem is because of the lack of leadership and imagination from the institutional LPs, and opaque decision making processes that are built into every level of this industry, but wait that’s not in this report. Instead it Feels like Deloitte interns asked chatGPT “please write me a generic recommendation for improving DEI in the VC industry” www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/De…
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Feel it’s just the beginning, the current state of industry is reminiscent of a pre-regulation oil industry & with the current direction the best outcome is cartelized oligopolies controlling which ideas get funded and who wins, not the best ones! nytimes.com/2023/04/15/bus…
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John Francis@hermitvc·
Is this a normal experience for emerging GPs? is it just me or does some of the practices described and celebrated here just feel wrong? What is the case for emerging VCs if they are just poor imitations of the establishment?
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John Francis@hermitvc·
For the sake of humanity hope asking the right questions requires a touch more intelligence than answering them! It doesn’t matter if the work involves physical labor, at the current pace of AI development, we are all destined to be replaced sooner than we think #GPT4
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John Francis@hermitvc·
@WSJ needs better VC sources, this story lacks depth. This rescue did favor the legacy managers a lot more than the emerging managers. The alternative could have reset the board, is that an acceptable amount of pain/ or a good tradeoff ? may be the right question to ask
Josh Felser@Joshmedia

Startups across the country with 100s of thousands of employees in total, from sea to shining sea, bank at #SVB. Those companies, if their assets had been frozen or lost, would have laid off 10s of thousands of employees. Again those employees live in red and blue states. This was a save for employees more than anything else. It was less for VCs, since most VCs call capital as needed, so they tend to deposit only what they are about to invest in startups (and to a lesser extent to cover their management fees). This was a poorly researched piece, perpetuates false memes and wrongly politicizes the situation. wsj.com/articles/how-b…

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John Francis@hermitvc·
It’s a great time for institutions to support early stage emerging managers , diversifying away from the mega funds could massively improve the diversity of ideas that are being funded. Some of these older fund strategies are dated, biased and prone to boom bust cycles
Dan Primack@danprimack

Founders Fund, co-led by Peter Thiel, raised a $1.8 billion venture capital fund last year. Now it's handing back half of it -- the first time a VC firm has done that since the dotcom crash. Will other VC firms follow suit? Scoop with @imkialikethecar axios.com/2023/03/03/fou…

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John Francis@hermitvc·
@DelJohnsonVC @MeghanKReynolds @altcap @theallinpod @Jason Breaking this narrative is crucial for newer funds, for diverse founders and diverse ideas to get funding ! without testing new ideas and strategies in VC, it will remain a puesdo science based industry attracting charlatans and con-artists.
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John Francis@hermitvc·
I'm excited to share a whitepaper discussing a new framework to help startup founders and early stage investors and angels make sense of all the VC industry reports and drive actionable insights. Read the full white paper here lnkd.in/gk7RZAtD
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