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. . 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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“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.” But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can. The goal of an LP is to get into the top decile. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2011

On my run today I was thinking about GP – LP interactions. The interaction was I had with one of my LPs over the last 24 hours. They emailed asking for a reference on someone who indicated they knew me and had invested with me. I was also able to get some specific one degree of separation feedback for my LP.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” 7 times out of 10 he knows what’s going on before I do and is either slipping a paper on my desk, texting me or emailing me something about to go down.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I walked home and spent a few hours grinding through email. I’m guessing that Jamey was the LP in the post that Jo is referring to, since the principles of business love, that Jo refers to, are exactly what we talked about. Entrepreneurship business love culture Venture Capital'

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I had interacted with the entrepreneur over email – taking a look at the initial business plan and setting up the meeting – but we hadn’t met in person before. I recently waked into a pitch meeting for a social networking related business and was surprised by what I saw.

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. LPs tend to assume that the highest-quality managers have all the demand they can handle. Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. But can you?

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. Email This BlogThis! The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. Venture News. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I had interacted with the entrepreneur over email – taking a look at the initial business plan and setting up the meeting – but we hadn’t met in person before. I recently waked into a pitch meeting for a social networking related business and was surprised by what I saw.

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LP Venture Capital Early Stage Social Network 48

Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

Yesterday I sent emails out passing on participating in two seed rounds for companies I really like. We don’t expect anything for this other than a role as a typical LP, but we view it as increasing the seed ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. When I get these inevitable emails or calls I respond the same way, “It’s a shame for me that I’m too late to your process.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s. In looking at that data, if Im a VC and promising LPs a 42% return, my "gut" might be telling me to to find another job when the fund is done. Email This BlogThis! Labels: due diligence , financial analysis , venture capital.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Spreading the word : gain awareness of your firm; define and spread your message Email is quite effective at keeping top of mind. Build and maintain large email database. Question : How do you handle in-bound emails? Prestegaard, High Road Capital Parnters. Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

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. Competition also has access to capital. Anxiety slowly crept into everyone’s world. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

They wake up earlier than a lot of entrepreneurs do, and, I get a lot of late night emails from VCs working through their email inboxes late at night. Funding environment : No one can question that Silicon Valley has the most developed venture capital and funding environment for startups.

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Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 124

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

They wake up earlier than a lot of entrepreneurs do, and, I get a lot of late night emails from VCs working through their email inboxes late at night. Funding environment : No one can question that Silicon Valley has the most developed venture capital and funding environment for startups.

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Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 112

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The business of venture capital is relatively young. The birth of modern-day venture capital (not considering the European monarchs financing explorations and projects as venture capital) can be traced back to American Research and Development, which was started by Georges Doriot. The LP perspective.

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IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Trouble is, the childcare industry is based heavily on human capital that is already underpaid. Do you want someone already making $12–17/hour watching your kid to make less (so a LP can make their returns…)? This all points, in my view, to the competency with this market. People are trying, and we should keep trying.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

If I''m going to pay a fee and carry, would prefer to invest in a venture capital fund, as the investments are being managed by professionals and have a duty to look out for LP interests. In fact, I have been on the platform since it''s early days as a daily email sharing interesting angel opportunities.

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Syndicate Syndication Silicon Valley Common Stock 28

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

CrunchBase Profile for AOL Ventures ). People email me sometimes and say, “if we only had AOL’s traffic we would be huge!” I get it, but that’s not a logical investment thesis for us to deploy capital against. First and foremost, we have carry in our fund and share in the upside if we earn a financial return for our LP.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Are LPs to blame?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I told him that I had observed every LP on their computers doing email and that clearly they were bored, to which he replied, “We like boring Powerpoint presentations. When we were rebuilding our LP base one of the single most helpful person to me as a friend, sparring partner and reference was Dana Settle of Greycroft.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. Probably a correlation here with why there was more venture funding for golf tech than women’s fertility until very recently…. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

There are too many to mention but I’ve noticed them all on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and people who have emailed or texted me. When I went to add partners at Upfront I called an LP of mine and told him I was trying to recruit a new partner named Kara Nortman. I shot back quickly at my LP “ You’re kidding me, right?

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