2007 LP Naming Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2017
Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
And we were just entering the “TechCrunch era” with a little known blogger named Michael Arrington hosting parties at his rental house in Atherton and Robert Scoble first appeared naked in a shower (in this case with Shel Israel – and this was the exact party. Wondering how far we could have taken things. Question not.
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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. His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. They ignored us.
aweissman.com
JULY 31, 2007
Jul 31, 2007. Venture Capital. Rarely have I read a more interesting essay about the psychology of venture investing than this piece written by Todd Jaquez - Fissori. If venture investing interests you, please read the whole thing. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. At last, the compromise. at 2:22 PM.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 10, 2016
My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” And Greg has had the most influence on Upfront Ventures’ strategy since he joined. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. I keynoted.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 25, 2013
“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” 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. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 23, 2015
You may recognize Scott’s name – I wrote about him in my post When VCs Don’t B t You. The next person on the list of supporters is Scott Maxwell at OpenView Venture Partners. ” Second, I went through the scale up of the organizational VC firm in the late 1990s at Mobius Venture Capital.
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