Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. Unprecedented revenue growth + companies staying private longer =. Just see the growth of Dropcam, GoPro and Nest for the tip of the iceberg in what is to come.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

Big Sky Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm , has recently announced the launch of its inaugural fund, with $20 million in capital commitments. Initially, they assumed that venture capital and investing in funds were common knowledge among potential limited partners (LPs).

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Some of the VC fund’s own limited partners will typically invest in a SPV, plus the platform’s members can contribute additional capital. . We particularly help companies in winning revenue from our LP network and raising capital for subsequent rounds from top-tier late-stage investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

There are now so many new early stage investors and many of these are new it’s not so obvious whom you can trust. This investor decided to use the fact that they got into a company that appears to be doing well to their benefit to almost fraudulently persuade limited partner investors to give them money.

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SEC Venture Capital Early Stage Cofounder 352

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. But of course, for every angle of the market where one person sees caution, another spots opportunities.

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Venture Capital LP Silicon Valley Marketing 150

The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

Jason Lemkin is the Managing Director at Storm Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage enterprise and IT companies, including MobileIron , Marketo and GuideSpark. Specifically, it feels eerily similar to how I felt when I was CEO at EchoSign when we were at about $4m in revenue.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

When you''re out on the road pitching, and getting people to believe in you, you feel a deep sense of responsibility to your limited partners--and there isn''t a day when you don''t wonder why you didn''t just take some easy corporate job where no one would notice if you weren''t working productively.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Portfolio Private Equity 167

Hippoland

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

But what if a company is growing revenues but hasn’t raised a round in a while? At that time, they had no revenue and now they are doing $500k revenue runrate. However, these other methods do not apply particularly well to early stage investing, in my opinion.) Last traction: None have revenue.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In October, we held our annual Limited Partners meeting at NextView. This is happening because many series A investors are not really investing in early stage companies any more. In fact, many of these investors are not just looking for early product/market fit, but for meaningful scale and growth.

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Later Stage Marketing Early Stage Ratchet 28

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. They talk about] businesses which are not contractually recurring revenue in the parlance of recurring revenue run rates. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital. That scares me.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds. But some will be saved.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. -

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

However, even though this is a young industry, I’m going to posit that “early-stage” venture capital as it exists today is broken and in need of reform. As established funds move up the venture spiral, they leave behind a vacuum for true early stage venture capital. I refer to this as the Venture Spiral.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Answer: Actually there is plenty of financial information available from private companies, but that does not mean that it is available to institutional investors as passive investors who are Limited Partners in venture capital or other private equity partnerships. Share and Enjoy:

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

As an investor, it’s not always easy to assess the team at the very early stage, especially if they didn’t come from working in the space before. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders project $455M NFT revenue (2022) from Pitch Decks. The issues of control goes beyond owning digital assets. link] — jack??

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