O'Reilly launches venture fund: O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

Re:O'Reilly launches venture fund: O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures by pg on Friday March 09, 2007 @02:53PM (#3253)

We know these guys pretty well and we like them. They understand hackers better than most VCs.

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Re:O'Reilly launches venture fund: O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures by mattculbreth on Friday March 09, 2007 @04:14PM (#3267)

I assume they are closer to the traditional VCs in their model and not as much seed funders like Y Combinator. Is that your understanding as well Paul?

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Re:O'Reilly launches venture fund: O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures by notabel on Friday March 09, 2007 @04:52PM (#3283)

Based on the fund size they are discussing, I'd say that's a pretty good bet. For the startup community, I think that's a good thing. While competition in the seed/angel space is fine and dandy, having a VC firm headed by someone has hacker-aware as Tim O'Reilly seems like a definite win.

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Re:O'Reilly launches venture fund: O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures by pg on Saturday March 10, 2007 @10:15AM (#3416)

Yes, they're VCs. I think they'd be more willing to do small (e.g. 500k) deals than many other VCs though

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