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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. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry.

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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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Early Stage VCs – Be Careful Out There

Feld Thoughts

It has happened only one other time in my investing career – in 1999. By 2002 investments at the seed level had evaporated (there were almost no seed financings happening). .” We are seeing this also and have been talking about it internally, so it prompted me to say something about it.

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After Your First Big Success, What’s Next?

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been through the “what’s next” discussion with Amy several times, including in 2004 when I doubled down on Mobius Venture Capital (instead of packing it up and calling it quits), in 2006 when we decided to start Techstars and Foundry Group, and again in 2013 after spending six months being extremely depressed.

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#GivingThanks: Jerry Colonna and Naropa University

Feld Thoughts

I eventually co-founded SoftBank Technology Partners (which became Mobius Venture Capital) and SoftBank (the corporation) became a 50% LP in Flatiron with Chase. In 2002 Jerry retired from venture capital and went on his own personal journey for meaning. We made more investments together.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

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