can you rephrase? not sure I'm following (syntactically)
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Can I use a specific example to make it a bit more concrete? Consider a Series A round in venture funding. It might be for about $5 million these days. The cost of evaluation for a successfully closed round is north of $100k when you account for time of the relevant people.
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Replying to @patio11 @catherineols and
It feels plausible to me that you can unlock a lot of good with substantially less than $100k, but the structure that can produce a Series A round can't even contemplate that opportunity. Argument applies to other fields than technology companies and other funding options.
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Replying to @patio11 @catherineols and
I think, even within fields that have high-dollar funding available and assumed to be on the happy path, that there is likely substantial value unlocked by low dollar checks. In fact, I think the lower bound for impactful funding and marginal returns to it are likely *shocking.*
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Replying to @patio11 @catherineols and
There's an old saw about "for want of a nail, the war was lost", but I think that has other-than-metaphorical quality to it. I feel with north of 90% confidence that I could have accelerated my career by plural years for about $2,000 and a cup of coffee, for example.
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Replying to @patio11 @catherineols and
Is that $2k of present-your time, or $2k funding? Hard part there has to be finding people with a 1% chance of being patio12, right?
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Replying to @jtbooth1021 @catherineols and
I think if you literally showed up at my door in 2007 through 2009 with "Here's $2k cash in yen (and, if I am being totally honest here, social license to quit your day job)" that would have saved me two years of my life / accelerated business trajectory by two years / etc.
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Replying to @patio11 @jtbooth1021 and
$2K wouldn’t have bought you that social license, would it? And with social license, would you need two years to save up $2K in ten on your salaryman salary?
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Replying to @dfabu @jtbooth1021 and
The thing which is obvious to me now but not obvious to me then was that I was the only person who had to be comfortable with me quitting, so if you had delivered a narrative that would have gotten me to sign off on it along with the check, I model it "one coffee or less."
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Replying to @patio11 @jtbooth1021 and
I’m hazy on your biography, but weren’t you engaged/married at the time? “You won’t believe it, honey, but a mysterious angel appeared, handed me $2,000 and a venti, and told me to quit my day job!”
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Met my wife in 2010. (I think I may have been dating someone for part of 2007 through 2009 and that would have gone in calculus for me during that part, but not materially at the other parts.)
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