Distribution Finance Later Stage Portfolio 
VC Adventure
AUGUST 15, 2018
Higher strike prices distributes proceeds away from short term gain tax to equity holders who more typically are paying long term gains on the value that was shifted (I’m skipping a huge amount of nuance and detail here but the above is a general representation of how things work). So what should this discount be? I was wrong.
VC Adventure
MAY 5, 2022
BUT (and you knew there was a but here given the post title…) it’s a poor way to compare the relative performance of funds early, and even into the mid/later, stages of a fund’s life. But that doesn’t seem to be stopping funds or LPs from touting IRR as the gold standard for evaluating relative fund performance.
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The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s municipal bond market.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.
View from Seed
APRIL 7, 2015
For instance, one compelling thing about our former portfolio company Sunrise ( recently acquired by Microsoft ) is that the company actually never really had a website. Even later stage VCs will push to meet founders much earlier than seems appropriate for their sweet spot. Almost all VCs say they like to invest really early.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
And while it can often be the case that “lemons ripen early” (meaning that the unsuccessful companies fail early in a fund’s lifecycle), the harvest cycle for the winners in the portfolio can take what sometimes feels like an eternity. Your new book, Secrets of Sandhill Road , is literally subtitled Venture Capital and How to Get It ?
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2021
San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.
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