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Arlan Hamilton

Founder of Backstage Capital, built a fund from scratch while homeless and wrote about it plainly.

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Dear White Venture Capitalists: If you're reading this, it's (almost!) too late.

Arlan Hamilton

The viral 2015 essay, written while Hamilton was broke and pitching her fund, calling out venture's failure to fund underrepresented founders. It directly led to her first LP check and the founding of Backstage Capital.

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Arlan Hamilton's $5M crowdfunding raise, empowering & educating underestimated founders | E1205

Arlan Hamilton

Backstage Capital's Arlan Hamilton on going from homeless to VC, her $5M crowdfunding raise for her own firm, and educating underestimated founders on how capital actually works.

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25 Traits of the Ideal Early-Stage VC

Pietro Invernizzi

A crowdsourced-and-curated list of 25 best-practice traits for early-stage VCs, cc'ing prominent investors who debated it in replies; a useful rubric for founders scoring prospective investors.

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Backstage Capital on VCMatch See Backstage Capital's investor profile: stage, check size, portfolio and how to get a warm path.

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