David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge. Jaime Hildreth, Managing Director of GP and LP Strategies at Ipreo , informed us that 97% of Ipreo’s GP clients report that data requests from LP’s have increased over the past two years.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Hunter Walker

JULY 19, 2017

As Tomio Geron wrote in this week’s WSJ , At Homebrew , we don’t currently use Scouts, but generally welcome any investors into syndicates who can provide value to the founders. If the Scout is passing along your email updates and investor updates to their sponsoring fund, you should know it. Are you a Scout?

Founder 69

Founder Silicon Valley Cap Table LP 69

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. 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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

Yesterday I sent emails out passing on participating in two seed rounds for companies I really like. We are syndication agnostic – happy to invest alone and equally happy to invest with firms we like to work with.

Seed Stage 138

Seed Stage LP Warrant Syndicate 138

Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

It was a great product addressing a large market opportunity and was interested in seeing how the AngelList syndicate process worked. Due to confidentiality provisions, I can''t disclose details, but there are many very unhappy participants who invested through the syndicate. Syndicates can either be company led or investor led.

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Syndicate Syndication Silicon Valley Common Stock 28

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. I have been the recipient of many solicitous emails raving about startup company performance, imploring me to “invest before I miss out,” telling investors on occasion that they can only get into deals if they also invest in that person’s fund.

IPO 150

IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150