📶 VC funds had their best quarter since 2021

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Happy Monday. We hope that each of you had a great weekend.

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• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
New VC fund data gives some hope #️⃣

• VC fund returns capture best quarter since 2021, eking out 0.4% gain (Pitchbook)

• AI founder FOMO pushes seed VCs to the sidelines (Pitchbook)

• The Most-Active US Series A And B Investors Made More Bets In H1 2024 (Crunchbase)

• More Than 90% of 2021 Venture Funds Have Had Zero Distributions Thus Far, Report Shows (WSJ)

• Why Some AI Startups Are Tapping Investment Banks (The Information)

• Jeff Bezos’ brother’s firm has launched a debut $100M VC fund called HIPstr (TechCrunch)

LINKS

💡 15 rules for media companies: How to start and grow a media biz in 2024

🚀 How I grew our Syndicate to over 6,000 Limited Partners: How the Last Money guys grew a massive LP base

📨 How to Drive B2B Sales from Your beehiiv Newsletter: A masterclass on how to make your email list a revenue driver

😓 Things That Used to be Impossible, but are now Really Hard: AI has the potential to change the economics of a business, expanding addressable segments with better efficiency, according to Tomasz Tunguz

🏃‍♂️‍➡️ What Can Olympians Teach CEOs?: Nothing great is ever achieved with a victim mindset

✍️ What Makes a Good Product Market Fit Metric?: A strong product-market fit (PMF) metric shows when your product is ready for broader distribution, without leading you astray

🏓 The Science of Ping-Pong: What can a robot table-tennis player tell us about skill?

🔎 Deal Flow Report (08/18/24): AI sales experts with one line of code, a tool to make sense of your compensation package, and an automated LLM evaluation company

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RESULTS

Here are the results from our poll question in Friday’s piece:

What's your current job situation?

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Currently employed but actively looking for something new (13)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Currently employed but passively taking interest calls (9)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Currently unemployed and actively looking (14)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Retired - I'm done with that job stuff (9)

45 Votes