Michael Hirshland is a venture capital investor at Resolute Ventures who took an uncommon path into VC from the legal world, clerking for a federal judge and practicing law in Washington, D.C. before being recruited to Polaris Venture Partners in 1999. He helped pioneer the seed within a fund approach at traditional VC platforms and is known for his specific philosophy on acceptable versus unacceptable risk in seed investing, being comfortable with product and team uncertainty but rejecting investments with fundamental value misalignment or structurally small markets. Michael Hirshland is a venture capital investor at Resolute Ventures who took an uncommon path into VC from the legal world, clerking for a federal judge and practicing law in Washington, D.C. before being recruited to Polaris Venture Partners in 1999. He helped pioneer the seed within a fund approach at traditional VC platforms and is known for his specific philosophy on acceptable versus unacceptable risk in seed investing, being comfortable with product and team uncertainty but rejecting investments with fundamental value misalignment or structurally small markets.