thebarefootvc
JULY 3, 2017
Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. Broaden Search for New Fund Relationships : Most of these institutional LPs only add a few new fund relationships a year. This tends to reinforce the lack of diversity in deal flow.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. Getting Exits / Driving LP Returns: This was always the knock on me. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?”
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Version One Ventures
JANUARY 31, 2024
If you start a new fund, you need to be clearly differentiated: what’s your unique insight into a specific opportunity, your unique network that generates deal flow, your unique value proposition that gets you into deals? The first is the fund that you would ideally raise if LP capital was not a constraining factor.
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 wrapped up the closings on a few deals I had in progress—which I’m super glad I did, because those companies are now doing terrifically well. It was the first anyone had asked me about it. He seemed paranoid.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” I had a chance to discuss AngelList Syndicates with Naval at Michael Kim’s Cendana LP/VC conference on a panel with Naval, Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) and Mike Brown, Jr.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
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. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’
K9 Ventures
DECEMBER 10, 2011
Before CardMunch even launched its product, I ran into some folks from LinkedIn at an event and in casual conversation mentioned what CardMunch was trying to do. Again a casual conversation transpired. It’s a simple density/deal flow issue.
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