Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I asked for the responsibility of setting out the firm’s future strategy and our daily operating tasks. I laid out the following goals: Hire investment partners with operating experience combined with investment experience and deeply committed to LA Tech, but with strong relationships in SF, NYC and beyond.

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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?). With the advent of programs like CartaX and what I call streaming venture funds , the liquidity in private markets is going to get the foundation to grow significantly in 2021. No, but close.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. Having run our own companies, we try to pass on as much of our operations knowledge as possible. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs.

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Silicon Valley North America San Francisco LP 126

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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. 2) Market . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

GPs strategically invite trusted [Limited Partners and others] to co-invest, often based on the LP’s ability to add value or when the amount of capital required to complete an attractive transaction is larger than they are able to invest alone.”. 2) Investors with very specific value-add. Fundraising is burdensome.

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Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

The output takes the form of events where portfolio execs can meet each other, online communities where they can share knowledge and blog posts and talks from experts to disseminate best practice. This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. . Best practices continue to develop apace.

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Operations. We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. I had lunch with an LP. I like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. Marketing. Marketing = deal flow = share of mind = start of future relationships.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

It’s basically all in the marketing. Since the DMCA, we’ve basically operated in an environment of “ask forgiveness rather than permission” when it comes to copyright and IP online. It’s an embarrassment, frankly, to our tech community. If you support this bill, you are not supportive of us.

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IP New York LP Internet 153

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

I thought it would be helpful to put together some notes on market norms and issues to consider in negotiating a partnership at an institutional investment firm. So I would start by sharing with the fund an institutional LP due diligence checklist , and ask them to share their data room with you.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Partner 60

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. So what can a community do?

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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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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. I've learned more in the three months working with a real-life entrepreneur on a new venture than in all 5 years of Community College and my BA. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

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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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. There are also others.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2015

Last week Homebrew held its second annual LP meeting, coinciding with our second anniversary as a fund. They all became quite familiar with Homebrew during their diligence process but post-close is when we actually start to work together and bring them into our community.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Flow is a function of reputation and share of mind in target market. Signature and messaging will vary by market and audience, but must be internally consistent. Benchmark yourself to overall market activity. Intermediaries.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. While the journey of JuiceBox Hero is coming to a close, we know that our small but mighty team’s commitment to innovation for women, families, and under-represented markets is far from over. in a huge $77b market.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. Once more, the fantasy began to come apart.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions? J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. The company's market cap at the time of their entry into the public markets topped $100 billion dollars.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. Given technology is becoming the major form of market access – it should now be viewed in the same realm as access to medicine and education.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). It looked more like a market map than a competitive landscape slide. HW: Frank is venture backed. It was our flywheel.

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Chicago Venture Capital Miami Employee 78

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. – SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. This helps to replace the jobs lost as so many restaurants are going out of business due to COVID-19.

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