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The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified

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The Rise and Fall of VC Funds

In 2004, Jim Bonfire founded a firm called RingCon Venture Partners that was one of the earliest seed funds or micro-pecies. In 2016, he effectively merged that practice with a friend of mine, a buddy of mine, my most frequent co-investor,. Mark Mullen, had his own firm called Double M Partners. Launch Bonfire Ventures is essentially as a merger of the two firms. And we've raised three core funds and two growth funds, opportunity funds. We are now up to... We're adding the eighth person on our team at the end of this month.

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