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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. The longer the portfolio maintains the same value without distributing back cash, the worse the fund’s ultimate IRR. So, is this good or bad? This would suggest that TVPI would be performing well.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. If you look at the spreadsheet, you will see that the “Required Rate of Return” is expressed as an IRR.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands.