Boston Cost Limited Partner Management 
Growthink Blog
JUNE 28, 2010
Quite simply, investing in just one or a handful of private companies is way, way too risky for most investors and should be avoided at all costs. Becoming a Limited Partner Investor in a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund. Quite simply, as a wise old horseman once quipped - bet on the jockeys not the horses.
Growthink Blog
JUNE 28, 2010
Quite simply, investing in just one or a handful of private companies is way, way too risky for most investors and should be avoided at all costs. Becoming a Limited Partner Investor in a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund. Quite simply, as a wise old horseman once quipped - bet on the jockeys not the horses.
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View from Seed
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). The first is a staff constraint.
Agile VC
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). The first is a staff constraint.
David Cohen
JANUARY 28, 2015
It’s $150M of fresh capital focused on Seed and Series A and we’re now managing $265M in total. The first Limited Partners who invested in that first fund took a tremendous risk on me and on Techstars. Another moment that year was when we started to scale Techstars by expanding it to Boston.
finance.fortune.cnn.com
AUGUST 21, 2012
Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners.
Altgate
MARCH 8, 2009
I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds. Bookmark the permalink.
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