Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. So VCs often raise money every 3-5 years if they can.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

Last year, the VC industry partied like its 1999. last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. New data from research firm Pitchbook makes it official: valuations are at an all-time high. Some of the frenzy is driven by Wall Street. Seed-stage deals now require $5.1 million; Series A rounds reached $9.4

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. We at Remagine Ventures completed a new investment deal, continued working with our portfolio companies and in general saw IPOs, startups fundraising and succeeding at unprecedented levels. Photo Credit: AFP.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

ff Venture Capital is creating a new, spin-off business from an existing company, and we need a team to take the reins. About ff Venture Capital ( http:/ffvc.com ) : We are one of the most active early-stage investors in New York. Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 So how do Israeli ventures scale up? According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. Indeed, the pattern of scaling seems to be changing meaningfully in recent years.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. Partners at smaller funds, by contrast, have to hustle before they can cover their mortgage.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Often times those involve trading within a venture capital portfolio or between two venture firms portfolios. But what about the case where both companies are well capitalized and doing well? Obviously, Musk and Thiel both did fine off the eventual Paypal IPO (and even better subsequently with Facebook and Tesla).

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

question in venture capital. This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

When I first entered the venture capital business 10 years ago after being an entrepereneur, my partners warned me that "my bar" for new investments would get higher over time. Isn't there plenty of euphoria and "animal spirits" to go around with the IPO market returning, marquee acquisitions (e.g.,

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

The term was coined in 2013 by Cowboy Ventures ’ Partner Aileen Lee and let’s be honest, at least in my head cowboys go together with Silicon Valley about as well as oil and water so I’m betting Palo Alto based Cowboy Ventures had a little of Texas on their minds. They can just go back to their investors for more capital.

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Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

The bottom line take away (for me) is that VC is capacity limited by the value of exits (M&A plus IPOs). According to Fred’s posts, the “math problem&# in VC is that LPs have been investing capital in VC funds at the clip of about $25 billion per year for the past decade (excluding 1999 and 2000 which were strange years).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And so the other reason that I am very interested in delving deep into this space is that it seems like IPOs like Workday, Palo Alto Networks are sort of — they have metrics and analytics that Wall Street understands, more so than a Facebook; like “We are going to sell X number of this in the next year.” The GitHub guys did an amazing job.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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