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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

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At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. LPs Still Believe Strongly in Venture Capital as a Diverse Source of Returns.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc).

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). So why would raising venture capital be any different. But if you’re looking for something differentiated in your portfolio I think we’d be a great fit. why buy me?

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