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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors. If there are venture capital history books, NextView will be a minor mention in the chapter about the 2011-2021 era. Then Doordash.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. What’s a “fair” split of fee income and carried interest when a partner joins several years/funds after others?

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Pari Passu or F.U.little guy

Professor VC

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. Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. Labels: angel investing , entrepreneurial finance , entrepreneurial lessons , venture capital.

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Why Investor Titles are Important

This is going to be BIG.

I would propose that we call these types of investors “syndicate investors”—super useful folks who join with others to help rounds get raised on various crowd investing platforms. Partners, in my mind, should have carried interest (upside) in the fund and be able to lead deals and take board seats.

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