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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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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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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Turns out my network (of politicos and do-gooders) is not one of accredited tech investors (meaning they meet income and net wealth thresholds and choose to make investments at all, and specifically in startups). Or, I’d recommend consumer-facing founders start networking with the Angel groups in Silicon Valley immediately.

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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? And then the network can come to an agreed upon state that says, hey, this is a valid transaction. And they've almost become like quasi-government institutions in a way, and they're so focused on risk mitigation that it's not about innovation.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football.

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