View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. The top quartile has distributed 2.03x (vs.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But even at the Partner-level, the amount of transition in Venture Capital is much more than you perhaps would expect… especially in a business which should have a long term orientation with portfolio investment-hold periods and Partnerships lasting more than a decade. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital?

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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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. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP.

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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. Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). Venture Capital.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

By the by, women donors, I recommend diversifying some of your capital distributions to reap that ROI to keep doing good… (+ this is a whole ‘nother blog post…) Undeterred. Related: when people say that execution is the most important metric of who will win, keep in mind that executing a fundraise is almost paramount.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

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. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.”

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