Entrepreneur Lead Investor LP Portfolio 
Feld Thoughts
JULY 28, 2014
On paper, only one is in positive return territory as a fund, but the SBIC leverage is a substantial negative factor for the LP investors in that particular fund. As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC.
David Teten
JULY 12, 2017
When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” If I can reduce a portfolio company’s time burden, I create value for them. Fundraising is burdensome.
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The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 6, 2011
We also tend to focus on repeat entrepreneurs but are not opposed to funding first time founders who have significant domain expertise. We’re not looking to be anyone’s 80% customer and we frankly pass on a lot of entrepreneurs who have unrealistic expectations about what they want out of the relationship with us (it is a marriage after all).
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 3, 2021
For example, for me, I didn’t just put in “e-mail time”, I divided up the amount of time I spend responding to entrepreneur pitches in e-mail vs other types of e-mail, which I labeled “correspondence”. For example, I used to bounce around from portfolio company to portfolio company, bunching all my meetings together.
Venture Chronicles
JULY 16, 2010
I do want to devote some of this post to defending the VC business on one important point, there are times when a company is not deserving of continued funding and/or should be shut down to preserve investor capital. This scenario played out just yesterday with a company I am familiar with and the result has been devastating.
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