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Venture capital firm
First Round Capital is an American venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies. Founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan it is considered to be one of the leading and most active early stage investing firms. First Round has invested in over 500 startups since its founding, including Roblox, Square, Notion, Looker, Verkada, Clay, Fal.ai, Together AI, K2 Space, Parallel, Omni, Pomelo, Reducto, and Rillet. It has offices in San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: First Round CapitalA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Market Rewards in Capital Markets: The Impact of First‐Time Recognition by the Golden Round Table Award on Stock Price Crash RiskInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The PrinceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Raising the First Round of Venture Capital: What Founding Teams Should UnderstandCited 2 times
- Go sideways: Benchmark (venture capital firm)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Andreessen HorowitzA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Raising the First Round of Venture Capital: What Founding Teams Should Understand
THE FIRST STEP TOWARD GOTHIC LINEARIZATION: GENESIS OF ROUND PIER WITH SHAFTS ASCENDING FROM THE CAPITAL
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli · 1515
American FilmAmerican Film Institute · 1975
Yank, the Army WeeklyUnited States. War Department. Special Services Division., United States War Department · 1945
A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean.George Vancouver · 1798
Executive ReportsAspatore Books Staff · 2005
Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960- 📕Chinese economists on economic reform--collected works of Guo ShuqingGuo Shuqing · 2012
The history of Detroit and MichiganSilas Farmer · 1884
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