The Monday partner meeting is the cadence to which the entire venture-backed technology world dances. At that meeting, which typically lasts a good four to five hours, starting early and running to midafternoon with a break for lunch, the business of the venture partnership is done. Updates on existing portfolio companies are given by the relevant partners (who as often as not will have a board seat), invited entrepreneurs pitch at what’s likely the most important hour of their life, and new potential deals are floated. Since this was a small seed deal, chump change really, I didn’t need to
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