David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. But it’s not just China and Singapore. Baidu alone raised $3.2

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Kuwait Burn Rate 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. Limited Partners (LPs) who invest in VC funds have continued to pour money into venture – with the market returning to pre-recession levels.

LP 150

LP Valuation Burn Rate Pre-Money Valuation 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I made my calls around to a few firms today to hear how their partner meetings went. If we leave interest rates it can be interpreted as a fear our economy will be weak and/or impacted by China. This doesn’t happen with every LP and it probably doesn’t kick in unless things get worse. But that was before this week.

Stock 150

Stock Finance Marketing Valuation 150

thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. Startups are not immune to globalization and can accelerate growth if thinking globally from launch.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Ghana Venture Capital India 69

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud).

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. This was also the period when VC started expanding seriously in emerging markets like India and China, and many LPs put new capital into these OUS funds. So at a fund level (e.g.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154