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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box? Still reading?

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Why Is There So Much Turnover In Venture Capital?

View from Seed

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital? Venture is a field with a power-law distribution of outcomes.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

Both Sides of the Table

. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can.

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

David Teten

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. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. Competition also has access to capital. Anxiety slowly crept into everyone’s world. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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On Geography

K9 Ventures

One of the investment criteria that I set for K9 Ventures is based on geography. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. Likewise if you’re an LP, you have to make sure you have reasonable exposure to Valley investments.

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On Geography

K9 Ventures

One of the investment criteria that I set for K9 Ventures is based on geography. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. Likewise if you’re an LP, you have to make sure you have reasonable exposure to Valley investments.