1) Via the application form: This is [hopefully] coming soon. The plan is for two of us to monitor the applications and then send proposals to the group same as the process for anything that comes from intro’s (see reply to the comment above from @lukeprog). I must note that reviewing applications can be very time consuming and I’ve personally found it generally requires much less energy to review projects that come in via intros than what comes in via open application forms.
2) Via intros. From my time in early stage businesses I felt this model was adopted by almost all venture capital orgs for good reasons and I have some trust in the method. I’ll put a little more on my own view on this in a separate comment.
3) Existing knowledge. Between us we made quite a long list of opportunities we already knew of in our first meeting. Even just the funding gaps on that list would be enough to absorb the whole fund for some time to come, however it does seem prudent to keep looking for even more promising projects.
Three main sources:
1) Via the application form: This is [hopefully] coming soon. The plan is for two of us to monitor the applications and then send proposals to the group same as the process for anything that comes from intro’s (see reply to the comment above from @lukeprog). I must note that reviewing applications can be very time consuming and I’ve personally found it generally requires much less energy to review projects that come in via intros than what comes in via open application forms.
2) Via intros. From my time in early stage businesses I felt this model was adopted by almost all venture capital orgs for good reasons and I have some trust in the method. I’ll put a little more on my own view on this in a separate comment.
3) Existing knowledge. Between us we made quite a long list of opportunities we already knew of in our first meeting. Even just the funding gaps on that list would be enough to absorb the whole fund for some time to come, however it does seem prudent to keep looking for even more promising projects.