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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”. Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe. These studios have different metrics than startup studios whose limited partners are private family offices or venture capitalists.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . – Hire more non-Partner staff.

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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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Kernel column: The LP update meeting

The Equity Kicker

As a reminder, LPs, or limited partners, are the investors in venture capital funds. Manager update. Then we update them on how we are doing compared with our peers and on any changes to personnel and our funds under management. What happens when VCs are hauled into the boardroom to justify their investment decisions?

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Event Invitation: The London Business School 2011 Private Equity Conference

VC Cafe

This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Johannes Huth (Managing Director & Head of Europe – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.) and Vincenzo Morelli (Partner – TPG Capital and Chairman of European Private Equity Roundtable).

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners.

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The Future of Israeli unicorns in 2024

VC Cafe

Discount Unicorns – Tiger Global opened its entire portfolio for individual bids in order to provide liquidity to its limited partners, often selling stakes in unicorns at steep discounts. Zombiecorns – according to Calcaslist, these companies aren’t showing the growth, or earnings needed to keep their unicorn status.

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