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I became an advisor to a handful of startups including Wealthfront. I joined the boards of ThisNext, Savings.com, and Dyn.com. I advised a total of six startups, with the typical commitment being two years of service.

You should plan to put $1.5 million to work in these fifty deals, which is $30,000 per startup on average. However, you’re probably going to want to put $1 million into the first forty-five deals and an extra $100,000 into each of your top five winners. This gives you a chance to get a five-times return on the winners, any one of which might go to

Based purely on the number of investments in billion-dollar companies, the firms SV Angel, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, First Round Capital, Founders Fund, DCVC, and Felicis Ventures came out on top in my study. Some, including Index Ventures, Accel, and Sequoia, also met great success inves