View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2019
One way to think about this is how quickly LPs expect to get their capital back from a VC commitment. Typically, when an LP makes a commitment to a new VC relationship, they are expecting to stay with that group for at least 2-3 funds. LP Constraints. Most LPs are trying to manage some targeted asset allocation.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 27, 2018
The second, Techstars, was founded in 2006. I was asked if any existed the other day by an LP, so following is a list of papers I am familiar with. The first accelerator, YC, was founded in 2005. Wikipedia has a good summary of the history of accelerators. They have evolved over the years, and many new approaches have been taken.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 23, 2017
by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. Today employment in the sector is comparable to levels from 2005-2006 when revenues were also similar. Founder of Duncan Capital LP , Joe Duncan is a FinTech entrepreneur, with a strong background in Cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence. We need smarter humans than we did.”.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 31, 2014
In addition to being an incredibly supportive investor in us from the beginning, this LP has become an extremely close friend. As I was walking home after dinner, I thought about the person who had introduced us to this LP. In early 2006, my partners at Mobius and I decided not to raise another fund.
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. hours / day.
Agile VC
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek. So at a fund level (e.g.
Agile VC
JULY 19, 2012
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. Though they only started in 2006, Foundry’s obviously off to a great start with investments in Zynga and AdMeld and a promising portfolio of others.
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