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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

Right on time, I’ve got a company from my first fund doing a roadshow right now that could net a big exit by the end of the year. I took my last LP meeting the first week of March and clearly, I didn’t close anyone that I had met with at that time. Not everyone produces LP money with the snap of a finger—not even Alan Patricof.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

– Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. They provide retail clients with sophisticated risk management tools that previously only ultra high net worth investors could access. . Net Promoter Score from Founders we back. Firm revenues.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

The nature of LP investors can vary widely, but the bulk of the capital in the VC ecosystem comes from large institutions like pension funds, endowments of universities and hospitals, charitable foundations, insurance companies, very wealthy families (aka family offices), and corporations. Advisory Firms.

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Where Do Venture Capital Dollars Actually Come From? This Visual Explains

Agile VC

The nature of LP investors can vary widely, but the bulk of the capital in the VC ecosystem comes from large institutions like pension funds, endowments of universities and hospitals, charitable foundations, insurance companies, very wealthy families (aka family offices), and corporations. Advisory Firms.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? Brian Chesky is always trying to figure out how to put stock in the hands of his community and how to bring community input into the governance, because that's such an important part of the ethos of Airbnb. This is Out Of the Crisis.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

A huge cleantech boom occurred and battery companies like A123 went public along with biofuels companies like Amyris, Gevo, and others, though in retrospect this was more of a bubble driven by unsustainable government subsidies (A123 is bankrupt and the biofuels companies trade at a fraction of their IPO valuation). So at a fund level (e.g.

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