2000 Entrepreneur LP Management 
Agile VC
OCTOBER 23, 2012
The VC industry (both the GP part and the LP part) pays attention to the sector’s returns, but the broader tech ecosystem only occasionally tunes in. 2) No Synthetic Alternative – If an LP can’t “buy” VC as an index, could they replicate the returns of an index some other way?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 25, 2013
After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can. The goal of an LP is to get into the top decile. But VC is like congress. It is changing.
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Feld Thoughts
JULY 28, 2014
Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. On paper, only one is in positive return territory as a fund, but the SBIC leverage is a substantial negative factor for the LP investors in that particular fund. The US government, however, lost most of the $2 billion it put into SBIC firms.”
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. The Funding Problem.
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 11, 2013
I was chatting with a friend last night about the lack of institutional investor (LP) interest in European venture capital as an asset class. I think that if you believed everything in the table above and you backed yourself to be able pick a good fund manager you would be pretty keen on investing in European venture.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 8, 2019
From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. .
Agile VC
JULY 19, 2012
First and foremost, it’s worth emphasizing that greatness as a VC firm is derived primarily from helping exceptional entrepreneurs build enduring companies. This is true not only in a firm’s dealings with entrepreneurs but also with it’s limited partners and even within the firm among its partners.
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