Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1]. I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. July 11, 2012.

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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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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Mike Markkula presenting Steve Jobs with first investment in Apple I recently watched an excellent documentary on PBS, Something Ventured: Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists. Startup outcomes tend to be very binary. Angel Investors Silicon Valley term sheets venture financing venture capital'

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. However, many folks probably don’t think about exactly where those VC dollars that help fund startups actually come from. So I wanted to dive a little deeper into what I call the startup capital supply chain.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. However, many folks probably don’t think about exactly where those VC dollars that help fund startups actually come from.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. 2) Rebirth of Some Firms - Mobius Venture Capital is now defunct.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

Early on in any startup is more often than not filled with the unknown. There’s a ton of questions, but one thing is for certain: it is thrilling to see your little startup start to come into its own. Venture capitalists are used only after a startup has begun to show a significant amount of revenue.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Group is worth noting for: Investing their own private money, Reid Dennis would found Institutional Venture Partners in 1974 First group specifically investing in the valley’s electronics industry SBIC Act of 1958 During the cold war the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union in 1957 both traumatized and galvanized the United States.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The business of venture capital is relatively young. The birth of modern-day venture capital (not considering the European monarchs financing explorations and projects as venture capital) can be traced back to American Research and Development, which was started by Georges Doriot. of the size of the fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Crowd investing platforms allow anyone to be an investor even if they’ve never even interacted with the team—so you could have made two dozen investments and still have very little firsthand knowledge of what life is like at a startup or what early stage founders go through. With new technology should come new terminology.

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