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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. For example, our limited partners have major ownership interests in such companies as Adidas , LafargeHolcim (largest building materials manufacturer in the world), and SuperNAP International (developer of data center facilities worldwide; used by Amazon, Intel and Microsoft).

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow.

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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . Your materials should ideally meet the expectations of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, even if you’re not targeting institutions.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

The first is that the ThomsonOne database shows capital weighted average returns consistently beating simple average returns for vintage years 1980-2008, implying that larger funds do better than smaller funds. It’s not impossible to manage a large fund for high returns, but it’s empirically very difficult.

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