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• This week's five days of deal flow — market at the top, mid-cycle, or just noisy?
• What's the one deal from this week you wish you'd seen before it closed?
• Would you have wired money into any of this week's headline rounds on the terms reported, sight unseen?
• If you'd passed on the month's biggest headline round, would you tell people you passed?
• August was the most capital-intensive on record, +123% YoY. Which do you actually believe, versus what you'd say publicl
• A $450M debt round for AI-agent infrastructure, not equity — does that change how you read a company's confidence in its
• A women's health AI startup raised a clean $40M the same month as multi-billion infrastructure rounds. Which is the real
• 35 new funds launched in August alone — healthy, or a late-cycle signal?
• One AI Series A took nearly a third of all US Series A capital that month. What does that do to every other founder rais
• Defense tech pulled in $1.75B across three companies in one month. What actually drove that, honestly?
• The Carta backlash over cap table data — did it change who you trust with sensitive data, or just how loudly you complai
• Did OpenAI's $40B round at a $300B valuation change what you consider a "normal" check size?
• Top 5 firms captured 73% of all LP capital this year. If you're not one of them, what's the honest strategy?
• Secondaries hit $152B this year, trading around 78 cents on the dollar. Does that price tell you more about the sellers
• Down rounds went from 4% of growth deals in 2021 to 24% now. Sitting across from a founder taking one, what are you actu
• 89% of AI dollars went to $100M+ mega-rounds in Q2, while the median AI deal was $5M. Which side describes your own stra
• 250 new unicorns by mid-August versus 193 in all of 2025 — genuine value creation, or faster re-rating of the same optim
• SpaceX just delivered the largest venture-backed exit of all time via IPO. What's the actual takeaway for your own fund'
• Which of these actually changed how you evaluate a deal this past year?
• Solo GPs are raising Fund II and III faster than anyone predicted. What's actually being proven?
• A European fintech round this week was co-led by a famous founder-turned-angel. Would that name change your own terms if
• This week spanned defense, cybersecurity, AI infra, neurotech, women's health, fintech. Which would you write a check in
• do you think vc funds are overconfident while making mistakes 95% of the time?
• In venture, what actually decides the outcome
• The hardest thing to understand when you move into venture
• Run your own 12-signal framework on yourself before you had the fund. Verdict?
• Think about the best founder you ever passed on. If they pitched you again today, would you back them?
• Which signal would actually make you bet on a founder, sight unseen?
• When a founder you passed on wins without you, what's the real reason, most of the time?
• Be honest: is a VC's pattern-matching mostly skill, or mostly luck?
• How much of your fund's whole return is really just one outlier deal carrying everyone else?
• Which legible-founder trap have you personally fallen for?