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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 What is total assets under management? - Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. Why does vintage matter to you?

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

That’s a sizeable amount, especially in comparison to the US venture capital industry, which similarly invests over $20 billion annually. In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix' And you don’t have to worry about picking out the right clothes!

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After Your First Big Success, What’s Next?

Feld Thoughts

We figured we could easily live for the rest of our life on consulting income and what we’d managed to save, even if none of the angel investments I was making turned into anything. So we packed up, moved from Boston to Boulder, and decided to build a life in Colorado, while I continued to invest.

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#GivingThanks: Jerry Colonna and Naropa University

Feld Thoughts

NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). In 2002 Jerry retired from venture capital and went on his own personal journey for meaning.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Posted in: Venture Capital.

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. It becomes too complicated.

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