Jay Farber

Growth @Juniper_Square and Venture Partner @fprimecapital. Opinions are mine but I'll happily share

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

New to and curious about FinTech? Start here

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

@iankar_ /1 Get ready for a tweetstorm. Here's where to start:
First, read a few overviews to get a sense for the funding / innovation climate. Start with https://t.co/QD1PjPQwX0, https://t.co/bId8zUFNj6, and https://t.co/WYxkvZ8SSU .

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

@rebeccamakkai Lasagna Means I Love You & Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane by @kateoshag both great!!

[Joel Cohen @joelmcohen]

LP QUALITY, WHY IT MATTERS, AND HOW TO DILIGENCE IT

A thread for investment managers, emerging and not.

These are my suggestions from my own experience - I would encourage GPs to chime in here, I know there are people on here that have put a lot of thought into this.

[John Melas-Kyriazi @jmelaskyriazi]

Super interesting report from @juniper_square on the state of VC.

53% of VCs are looking to improve portfolio monitoring. Top area for forward-looking technology investment. 👀

Not surprised based on what we're seeing.

Time to build! @metrics_co

https://t.co/PRwCDgMv7P

[F-Prime @FPrimeCapital]

.@rooociowu has been investigating the capabilities of #FedNow, the forthcoming American real-time payments system. In her first @Forbes contributed column, she compares its international peers.
#fintech #vc
https://t.co/ThrYF6IgpP

[Meghan Reynolds @MeghanKReynolds]

2) GPs with swift communication on direct and indirect exposure appreciated in this moment.

From one large LP:

"Many of our VC GPs don't have dedicated IR and are too busy dealing with their own exposure and helping companies to return our call"

[Anke @AnkeHuiskes]

For all new fund managers out there who need to hear this: it took @usv 18 months to raise their first fund (2004). Also, it returned ~14x of invested capital 🙇‍♀️

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

@JSQKyleFundAdmn @etarczynski Agree it's not common but there are a few - Benchmark itself was an example of that! (Bob Kagle spun out of TVI which backed Microsoft, Sun, and many others). Greg Sands at Costanoa and Theresia Gouw at Acrew are two more

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

@DougButdorf @andrewfielding Lots of options still out there! @sydecario, Flow, @AngelList, Canopy...take your pick!

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

@arfrank Best take

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Twitter is an anti-compassion machine that stokes our tendency to dehumanize and even hate people we don't know personally.

Four little exercises I use to combat that and crank up the compassion in my mind:

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

Beware. Literally everyone I know who tries this has fallen in ❤️

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

This is a fun day. World, meet @ashbyhq: The Data-Driven ATS
https://t.co/qQfgEt2wCF

[Meghan Reynolds @MeghanKReynolds]

Heard from a VC LP this week:

“Very hard to underwrite anyones track record right now - regardless of how they have marked their portfolio. There are too many bad companies sitting on a lot of cash. We will wait for fallout and dispersion to become more clear.”

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

😂

[That Guy from Juniper Square @JuniperHassan]

I've decided to start applying the tropes of VC-twitter language to my daily life. So...

I'll be visiting the Oakland Whole Foods Market from 09/07 - 09/07 at 8pm PST. Any recommendations on who I should connect with while I'm out there?

[ashbyhq @ashbyhq]

Ready to make hiring your competitive advantage? After 3 years of building, we're excited to launch Ashby!

Join us on September 13th for a product deep dive presented by our CEO & Co-founder, Benji Encz, and other team members.

Save your spot: https://t.co/O4tBbbuGf5

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

@JuniperHassan Wanna come to a meeting of The Gathering with me this weekend? It'll be really fun... bonfires on the beach, night volleyball...

[That Guy from Juniper Square @JuniperHassan]

@jay_farber told me that he ran into someone that said our email outreach wasn't "juicy" enough...

That's not okay.

Allow me to make our case. 🍊🍇🍓

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

First quarterly update (of many to come) on the VC landscape by Juniper Square!

[Juniper Square @juniper_square]

In the first half of 2021, the value of U.S. VC exits set a new annual record at $372.2 billion.

The story of the first half of 2022 is very different.

In our new blog, we discuss the state of the venture space and what the year ahead looks like.
https://t.co/xwFsXgQiCk

[Nichole Wischoff @NWischoff]

All for speed to market but AngelList is not the platform for full time fund managers. You need to own your LPA, have a lawyer on call and truly sweat the details.

[Jay Farber @jay_farber]

One of those weeks that we can be 100% sure our descendants will look back on in shame. So many heartbreaking stories will come of this. Our country just got a few degrees worse.

[Suzanne @SJohnsdottire]

Pro-lifers don't like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby's frantic attempts to breathe. My OBGYN advised me to terminate the pregnancy, there wasn't much time. But I couldn't.