Acquisition IPO Limited Partner Management 
Steve Blank
MARCH 16, 2016
VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). BTW, Angel investors do not have limited partners, and often invest for reasons other than just for financial gain (e.g., The Deal With the Devil. (A
View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2019
At the same time, despite some realizations in recent years through M&A, PE acquisitions, and IPOs, the general sense I get from LPs is that the level of distributions don’t quite line up with the unrealized performance. Most LPs are trying to manage some targeted asset allocation. LP Constraints.
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VC Cafe
JANUARY 15, 2024
With the IPO window closed, growth funding severely dwindled and multiples down as a result of the public market, unicorns face tough choices in 2024. With limited options for liquidity (M&A or IPO) and significantly less growth capital, unicorns face an uncertain future. trillion, according to CB Insights.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. 15-20% sold per round.
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 6, 2012
A little more inside baseball from the VC biz… why VC’s rarely make “crossover” investments, with capital from multiple funds the VC firm manages invested in a single startup (see note 1). I was talking with an entrepreneur recently about this phenomenon.
Board Effect
MAY 10, 2019
The goal of venture funding is to get a very high return, usually in the form of an acquisition of the startup or IPO. At this stage, if business owners are fortunate enough to partner with a venture capitalist, they need to be prepared to take the money and make it grow quickly. How Venture Capitalism Works.
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