Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Others may not have the experience you want and they fill up a seat that makes retaining founder control more difficult if you ultimately raise large rounds of venture capital in the future. What happens at the A-round of venture capital? With that said, no venture capital firm really wants to replace a CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). The overall trends in our industry have breathed a new life into the venture capital industry. Why is this? and hasn’t abated.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 27, 2018

I was asked if any existed the other day by an LP, so following is a list of papers I am familiar with. Accelerators and Crowd-Funding: Complementarity, Competition, or Convergence in the Earliest Stages of Financing New Ventures? Accelerators and the Regional Supply of Venture Capital Investment , Fehder and Hochberg, 9/14.

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LP Incubator Venture Capital Technical Review 106

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. The Funding Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Use online networks to more efficiently identify the right potential LPs.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

What’s happening in the venture capital world? The WSJ confirmed what we already know: Q2 venture capital investments declined both in size and in valuation. Venture Capital Feels the Stock Market’s Pain, Wall Street Journal. For example, Klarna is rumoured to be raising $650M in fresh capital at $6.5

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Venture Capital Valuation Private Equity LP 167

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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Leadership LP Venture Capital Silicon Valley 161

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

”, almost exactly 2 years ago to this day at Bloomberg LP’s headquarters in NYC as part of Social Media Week. While Facebook’s numbers have grown, internet usage (now mostly mobile even in developed markets) continues to evolve in a pace that rivals innovation in the past. You can view the full presentation here.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In other words, for a company looking to compete across the entire marketplace in a specific industry, it must either develop a unique product offering (along the lines of brand, design, features) or more-efficiently produce the product to outcompete on price. As the venture capital space matures, I see a similar pattern emerging.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

1) Corporate Venture Capital. Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. Some corporations emulate this model by creating their own wholly-owned VC entities, typically with one LP: the corporate balance sheet. 4) Accelerators.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We were roommates at the time and launched two different companies out of a kind-of dumpy apartment: We both went on to raise millions in venture capital and build meaningful businesses in interesting spaces. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Version One Ventures

JULY 31, 2018

From Day 1, he was dedicated to my personal and professional development. I often joke that I have gone through the Wertz School of Venture Capital ??. Reporting for our investors, including writing quarterly updates and preparing LP advisory board meetings. And I am so grateful for this.

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Babbling VC

OCTOBER 3, 2011

For those of you not in the know, they are one of the largest limited partners ( LP's : investors in venture capital funds) in Europe and are basically in almost all the funds throughout the market. If you see the new funds which have recently been launched you can tell the LP's are putting their money with former entrepreneurs.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

LPs, the investors in VC funds, have a difficult job to do, largely because they have to work with poor quality data and only a small fraction of VCs deliver the returns that make them worth investing in. Discipline also helps to keeps a venture fund’s loss ratio low which is important as they are ultimately stewards of LP investment funding.”

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

.” For a long time, I’ve talked about “business intimacy” – it’s the relationship I try to develop with the entrepreneurs I fund and the people who I work with. Entrepreneurship business love culture Venture Capital' I remembered my conversation with Jamey.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” In the end, if you’re not developing a deep bench of talented professionals who keep you on your toes, you’re bound to be disrupted.

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Los Angeles Early Stage LP Partner 150

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. 3) Raise capital. An example of a tech-enabled VC is Corl.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The funding was anchored by a major commitment from Two Sigma Ventures, the private venture investment affiliate of Two Sigma Investments. Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. Others that are experts in this field include Matt Harris at Village Ventures and Jim Robinson at RRE. Neither can any VC. Same with a new car.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. Maybe Micro VCs will get larger and emulate a multiple-partner strategy like True Ventures or First Round Capital.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Applied Venture. The most recent development that’s emerging is an extension of the Platform VC model that we call Applied Venture.

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I've had the privilege of working not only for investors like Josh Kopelman and Fred Wilson, but for an institutional LP that had been invested in venture capital since 1980. In all my investment jobs, the professionals I worked for were mentors and actively participated in my development.

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LP Venture Capital Startup Affiliate 115

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

We had a blast together and as we went out to raise our Foundry 2007 fund, Scott made several introductions which resulted in two wonderful, long term LP relationships. That’s how a friendship develops, at least in my world. Venture Capital baremetalvc deeply held beliefs openview scott maxwell Techstars value-add VC'

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Advisory Board Venture Capital LP Seed Stage 70

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'm doing a new academic experiment now - an incubator at Menlo College where we are bringing the start-ups to campus and giving the students an opportunity to see how they develop and work as interns.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

How will the continuing fundamental changes in the capital markets impact the model for venture capital investing in America and internationally?

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Venture Capital LP Later Stage Vertical 28

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

And so, we keep hearing how venture capital is about to be disrupted. Then, if you win the deal, you have major influence on the development of the start-up through negotiated governance mechanisms like board seats, information rights, anti-dilution rights, etc. We’ve all heard this song before.

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Venture Capital LP Dilution Limited Partner 164

Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

1) Self-Awareness & Humility - These are of course virtues that transcend venture capital or even professional pursuits broadly. A good example of this was Charles River Ventures experience with their 11th fund. And yes… great firms are self-confident too.

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Cofounder Limited Partner Early Stage LP 193

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. This is a realistically attainable for the individual investor.

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Private Equity Intellectual Property IPO Venture Capital 67

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. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

You see, Dan knows more about venture than most people; and if Dan isn’t aware that “pre-seed is a thing,” then I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining to the world what I and K9 do! Seed financing is used to finish building the product, testing for and establishing product-market fit, and developing early revenue traction.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Then develop personal relationship with whoever is covering you.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Bryce Dot VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Generally we keep these closing quiet, but given the word has leaked I thought I’d take a moment to put down some thoughts on our development as a firm and some of the thinking that went into the new fund. In several cases these rounds will allow companies to easily clear the hurdles of more traditional venture capital firms.

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Seed Stage LP Incubator Venture Capital 61

Rob Go

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” Surprisingly, this isn’t just an LP kind of question, I actually get this a lot from founders or even just friends who are not directly involved in the startup community. VC’s have developed scout programs that give founders some economics for any deal they bring in.

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Deal Flow LP Channel Software 28

VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Several European countries started announcing ‘Exit Plans’ from the current lockdowns. But as the world is starting to flatten the curves, the economic impact is just beginning. The UK chancellor announced a £1.25

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SBA Technical Review Startup 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

In a discussion I had with Fred Wilson at the Invesco LP meeting Fred said the same about the influence of Clayton. But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. Venture Capital. I don’t believe it.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s. In looking at that data, if Im a VC and promising LPs a 42% return, my "gut" might be telling me to to find another job when the fund is done. Labels: due diligence , financial analysis , venture capital. Venture News. Steve Bennet.

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