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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Some other companies with variations of this model include Alpha Venture Partners , Connectivity Ventures Fund , Crowdfunder , and Proof.VC. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Launch a venture capital fund of funds.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). Continental Capital*. $ 250,000. .

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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When VCs Invest Together, Does Ability or Affinity Matter?

Feld Thoughts

4/11 and @pmarca on why the IPO is not what it used to be – [link]. After I thought I was done I ran across a really interesting set of articles which didn’t make it into the tweetstorm. So when I read the first article, it was easy to conclude “VCs who are like each other do less well investing together.”

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When VCs Invest Together, Does Ability or Affinity Matter?

Feld Thoughts

4/11 and @pmarca on why the IPO is not what it used to be – [link]. After I thought I was done I ran across a really interesting set of articles which didn’t make it into the tweetstorm. So when I read the first article, it was easy to conclude “VCs who are like each other do less well investing together.”

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Barron’s Article on Tech IPO’s Misses the Importance of the Extinct Sub-$50 million IPO

Pascal's View

On Monday, August 10, Barron’s ran a story “Does the IPO Market Shun Smaller Companies?”, ”, written by Mark Veverka, asserting that “venture capitalists want to widen the playing field for the underwriters.” Sadly, the article completely ignores the implications of this systemic liquidity crisis.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels.