Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 16, 2014
We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Why do they invest in venture capital? We raised $280 million. Who gave you the money?
David Teten
DECEMBER 24, 2015
At our firm, ff Venture Capital , we didn’t aim to go to Canada, but ended up there anyway. We’re a New York based early-stage venture capital firm. The question some of our limited partners ask us is, “Why?”. Another Canadian firm that’s attracted venture capital is InteraXon *, founded in 2007.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 15, 2010
– I spoke about GRP’s recent exit of Ulta in which we returned $320 million to our limited partners. What advice do you have for people who want to get into venture capital? I talk in the video about the economics of venture capital and how we make money. Great exit. - Don’t.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2021
Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. What’s bringing them here? trillion in 2020.
Steve Blank
MARCH 22, 2009
Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?
Steve Blank
JULY 2, 2009
To an entrepreneur, being asked to join a venture firm with an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title means you have been tapped on the shoulder by the VC gods. The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. Lots of ideas sound exciting because people are clueless.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). So why would raising venture capital be any different. We’re the largest fund in Southern California. I now observes the fund raising process as a profession.
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