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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud.

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

This is what brings us to the second big difference: the cost of Applied Venture is too large to finance from a standard VC management fee. . Different funds finance the cost of these teams with a differing weighting of asking portfolio companies to pay for services, larger than normal management fees, and reduced compensation for partners.