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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. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

Both Sides of the Table

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” He talks about making things that people want & going after a big enough market. Eventually a successful startup will grow into a big company. I talked about some of that here.

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When Bad News Is Actually Good News

Babbling VC

Fortunately, for those of us in the market long enough, it's actually good news. 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. Look at Wooga or Wimdu.

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Kernel column: The LP update meeting

The Equity Kicker

The LP Update Meeting. I’m just back from our semi-annual update to the LPs in one of our funds, and I thought I would share the experience with you all. As a reminder, LPs, or limited partners, are the investors in venture capital funds. Market update. It was published last Thursday. Portfolio update.

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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). Panels : Value Creation – Driving LP returns through operational excellence.

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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. —– Indie.vc

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Disrupting VC

thebarefootvc

I saw some specific gaps in the market which I looked to address: NYC: I have been fortunate to be a part of the surge of entrepreneurial activity in NYC over the past several years. I agree that you want to be close geographically to your investments but it is possible to invest across borders with the right partners.