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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 billion under management.&# I don’t really understand why VCs do this since it’s mostly a meaningless number. What is total assets under management? - What is a VC fund?

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Source: NVCA.).

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Blue Collar VC

Mucker Lab

Just as entrepreneurs should aspire to raise capital from value-added, “smart money” investors, we, too, have focused on partnering with committed, long-term, institutional limited partners (LPs). We’ve written code, launched products, acquired users, managed P&Ls, and lost sleep over making payroll.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 2]

Agile VC

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. Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble.

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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. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners.

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Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

Austin Startup

The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco. investing in Everlywell, Moderne Ventures (Chicago), and Wavemaker Partners (Singapore) to invest in Icon, and investors from Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado joined a Houston-based venture firm to invest in Televet, an Austin based Veterinary Clinic Management platform.

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