Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2023

Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. I had many 1:1 conversations, emails, and messages with our portfolio company CEOs, along with several open Zoom lines where people could ask questions and just commiserate and feel part of a shared community.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 31, 2024

The first is the fund that you would ideally raise if LP capital was not a constraining factor. Given this, LPs today are focused on the depth of the investing experience of a new GP and any emerging manager should address this heads-on in their deck and LP communications. Things are much different now.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Our strategy for accomplishing this is to focus on new firms led primarily by underrepresented VCs, back them meaningfully, and support them via a community of peers, advisors, and institutional LPs. When 10 of us founded Screendoor in 2021 this was the plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If the CEO is popular in the community no VC wants to face the backlash in the community for firing a CEO unless it really is seen as the last resort. And by the D rounds you have often taken some amount of strategic money or potentially LP money and at times these groups ask for board observer seats and not full board seats.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2020

by Dr. Jim White , founder and president of JL White International and bestselling author of “ Opportunity Investing: How To Revitalize Urban And Rural Communities With Opportunity Funds “ COVID-19 has disrupted the business world, and the “normal” of a few months ago may never return. and Growers Ice Company, Inc.,

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I took my last LP meeting the first week of March and clearly, I didn’t close anyone that I had met with at that time. I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community. It was the first anyone had asked me about it. He seemed paranoid.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. Community : Building out Homebrew WW HQ in SF which at any time houses a couple of portfolio companies and founders pre-funding. We make available coworking space for free.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. We particularly help companies in winning revenue from our LP network and raising capital for subsequent rounds from top-tier late-stage investors. This evolves the VC from a server to a router.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

– SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. Clients typically use it to create and strengthen local community initiatives: bake sales, barbeques, political organizing, etc. .

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 13, 2020

” I knew Austin from his time at TenOneTen Ventures (we are an LP) and I reconnected with him when he joined the Kauffman Fellows Program (Class 25). Grid110 is a non-profit with a mission is to foster the most thriving, inviting and inclusive community for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

As a person who spends much time thinking about the venture capital & startup community and who has seen good times & bad times across many economic cycles the article is well written. Instant growth = huge valuation from follow-on investors = big VC mark-up on our quarterly reports = LP interest. Grow or die.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2015

Last week Homebrew held its second annual LP meeting, coinciding with our second anniversary as a fund. Bringing New LPs Up to Speed: Since we raised our second fund earlier this year, you can think of this as our first board meeting with our new investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But for now … Every year we run a big VC, LP & Tech Summit in Los Angeles (this year downtown) to showcase the best of our community and invite others from around the country. And what’s up with this crazy new blog design? Well … more on that next week. I will tell more.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

This comes on the heals of Upfront managing director Mark Suster’s great post titled Embracing Your Community as a Strategy which I encourage you to read as it is magnificent. In the last five years, there has been an explosion of startup activity in LA that continues to be exciting as the startup community grows and evolves.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”. As such, there are 3 stakeholders when building a thesis: the investing Partners, the LPs and the founders. . It incorporates influences from the LP and, more and more, from the founders.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. They helped us establish 2 GP entities, 2 LP entities, and 1 Cayman entity (for international investors) in ~2 months. We held our first close on August 1, 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2021

Tuesday I had hoped to work out in the morning but an LP from the Middle East asked for a call and given time zones 7:30am was the best time so once he asked I mentally switched gears and told myself I would run later in the day. My Strava community knows that! You can share your workouts with a community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. As I’ve started to get to know the other side of the VC industry lately (the people who invest in VC funds or “LPs&# ) one thing has occurred to me. My best guess is that new LP funds will be set up in the future to service Micro VCs. I think some will do this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

He understands our issues as a community and vows to help keep LA Tech on the map. To attract LP money to local VCs. And let’s elect a mayor who knows that building a vibrant tech community is the key to LA’s continued growth and innovation. LA needs Garcetti. He would be the first tech mayor of our city.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Lower level of community familiarity. Zack Mueller, Attorney, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC , points that almost “no one, from LPs to entrepreneurs to attorneys, has much experience with these instruments. Of the Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse. I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Does Lindel agree with Chris Douvos in stating this could lead to the ‘hybridisation of GP and LP’? Where do most prospective fund managers fail when pitching to LPs? What are the biggest problems with the LP community today? What do the financial compensation plans look like for LPs?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

Build a long-term LP based, anchored by diverse asset types (Universities, Endowments, Family Offices, Pensions, Insurance Companies, Sovereign Wealth Funds & Fund of Funds). He’s pushed us to be out in the community more. He’s proved much more efficient that I ever was at tracking the activities of the community.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2020

Hoffman Institute is a one-week intensive on-site program, leveraging therapy, meditation, experiential exercises and peer-to-peer community, designed to break the most formative negative patterns from our childhood. As an LP in Freestyle, I’m extremely excited to see their leadership in this area.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MAY 26, 2012

Participants included, Mark Walsh CEO of Genius Rocket, Mike Lincoln of Cooley LP, Ashish Jaiman of Microsoft, and Edmund Pendleton from MTECH at the University of Maryland. Successful businesses gain support from a larger community, particularly when chemistry and complementary business philosophies come into play.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

As competitive as venture capital often seems, we are incredibly humbled by the amount of support and love we have gotten over the years from our community. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs. Many of you have been investors since the first fund and we are thankful for all the continued support and confidence.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. In the early morning, a show of hands revealed about a 20% LP audience and 80% fund manager group.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

That's what led me to open up an office in Brooklyn--where half of the people in the New York City startup community call home. Another GA community member introduced me to the team at KEC holdings. It's incredibly rewarding to help people find positions at exciting high growth companies with great founders at the helm.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. There have been many times at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures where I’m leading a deal and after our co-invest call, an LP wants to put in just $10k. Access to other investors.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

10/ Community is a moat. Yes, but it turns out physical spaces lost out this year and virtual spaces and communities won the day (year?). Operating as a sort of fund-of-funds model there is an economy of scale program for figuring out the GP/LP structure, working out the services providers like legal, audit, and tax handling.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And one startup – Brickstarter – has decided to take it to the another level and design a system that allows communities to build their own sustainable and improvement projects. Etsy as a classic example of a vertical business, where their entire community are all consumers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Riverside defines proprietary as any sale less than ~3 buyers involved Kinderhook looks for the “broken” auctions that didn’t get the right attention of the PE community. Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A. Charter Oak Equity LP Fee at close Part of management fee Part of carry.

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