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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Send Text messaging for rapid responses. Always seek input.

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When Bad News Is Actually Good News

Babbling VC

For those of you not in the know, they are one of the largest limited partners ( LP's : investors in venture capital funds) in Europe and are basically in almost all the funds throughout the market. Hence anything from them is going to be based on information that truly represents the situation in Europe. .

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Chronic Under-financing of EU Start-ups Driven by Mindset

Babbling VC

I decided to make a blog post out of this since my answer over on Quora to a similar question seems to have quite a bit of resonance: "Differences in Entrepreneurial Mindset between the US and Europe". At the same time, businesses in Europe have always been forced to make do with less.

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Disrupting VC

thebarefootvc

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. Startups are not immune to globalization and can accelerate growth if thinking globally from launch.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. 20% initial ownership.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. Global and Local. I caught a glimpse of this energy during my Venture Partner tenure with the folks at GGV Capital , who’ve been successfully investing exclusively across China and the U.S.