Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. What will matter are: whether the people who invest in VC funds (LPs or Limited Partners) increase their activity and the performance of that actual fund.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.
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Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why.
Agile VC
JULY 19, 2012
1) Self-Awareness & Humility - These are of course virtues that transcend venture capital or even professional pursuits broadly. 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.
finance.fortune.cnn.com
AUGUST 21, 2012
Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2021
in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.” It is the tech hub of Texas and has the most local venture capital and attracts the most venture capital. billion invested across the state.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? There are a ton of companies being funded at $500+ million valuations--seriously limiting exit opportunities. When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. I met with a major institutional limited partner the other day--the kind of money that funds VC's.
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