Build the venture arm using the methodology of the room.

technique — attributed to Marco Giberti

EVG is a nonprofit legally, a deal-by-deal syndicate operationally, a salon culturally. Members argue through deals on Zoom and bring each other into companies they would never have found alone. Founders leave the pitch meeting with a network. Members leave with two new friends who also know what they are looking at. The principle that organizes everything else, that the gathering is the asset, organizes the capital function too.

For operators in any category where venture capital exists but does not yet behave like a community, and where applying gathering methodology to investment could compound the value of both functions.

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