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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

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.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. Since then?

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

At the other end of the spectrum large funds have gotten even larger in the past few years which has massively increased the amount of consolidation in our industry as 66% of LP money into venture is now concentrated in late-stage or full-cycle VCs. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more Why is this?

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we never lost the finance bug. Diversified funds are the most effective way to manage exposure to this volatile, rapidly evolving asset class.

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The Series A Round: “Could A Round By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?”

Haystack

At a minimum, getting to the Series A derisks (perhaps temporarily) a seed investment in a world where the shapes of investment outcomes can take a decade or more (consider, Uber is now a decade old and DocuSign, which just went public, was started in 2008). Historically, startups have by default relied on venture capital as financing source.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ProfessorVC. ► May. (1).