Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. portfolios. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. We decided to raise some venture debt as an insurance policy and extend our cash runway. million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process.

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ithacaVC

MAY 10, 2011

First, VCs get capital commitments from limited partners (i.e., That means that it has capital commitments from investors of $100mm. Capital is called when needed for investment, fund expenses or management fee. All capital returned from investment gets paid out. Here is a short explanation. investors).

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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. But some will be saved.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The bottomline is that this is the worst time in history for the venture capital industry. The stories of doom and gloom in the venture business are everywhere. Here are just a couple that I’ve come across recently: TechCrunch: The End of Venture Capital As We Know It? This ties the hands of venture firms.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Your Business Partner Closer,&# was a reformatted version of a blog post titled “Keep Your Startup Co-Founder Closer&# which appeared in Ryan Roberts PC’s blog for startups and entrepreneurs, The Startup [.] He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 16, 2010

Throughout my years in the venture capital business I was witness to some questionable behaviors and tactics, which in reality is par for the course in any business, but nothing could have prepared me for what I have seen in the last 2 years. The second scenario is the pulled term sheet.

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