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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x).

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x).

Valuation 295
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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. You can stop making new investments, but it will take years to actually work through your active portfolio companies. It will also be my last venture capital deal.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x).

Valuation 156
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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

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How to Avoid Being Part of 90% of Failed Companies

ReadWriteStart

These conclusions coincide with an investigation carried out in 2012 by Harvard Bussiness School professor Shikhar Ghosh, who, in addition to studying more than 2000 companies that received venture capital investments of at least one million dollars from 2004 to 2010, interviewed to entrepreneurs and carefully registered the portfolios of investment (..)