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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. LPs See The Over-Valuations and Don’t Like It. All isn’t completely rosy in the LP views of the venture industry.

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Should you raise traditional VC or Revenue-Based Investing VC?

David Teten

This includes the application process, phone calls with us, conversations with co-founders, investors and counsel, etc. not because of LP objections or moral concerns, but because the pool of potential M&A buyers is greatly limited. But this is the same for a VC round with a liquidation preference. Soup to nuts.

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