Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In the old days there weren’t many fights about whether angels would take their prorata rights in financing rounds. People all across the value chain have taken notice including Limited Partners who are the people who invest in VC funds in the first place. Thus begins the dance. And there’s always a but.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here are some observations I have from this exposure: If a company moves from strength-to-strength with predictable outcomes, easy financings, low staff turn-over, limited competitive threats then the composition of the board probably doesn’t matter as much. The founders of a company are fighting. It sounds obvious, I know.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. How founders get screwed on convertible notes. We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. This is hosted by NFX.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

An article in Forbes explains that a venture capital firm makes its money through management fees (a percentage of the amount of capital that they have under management) and carried interest (a percentage of the profits of the business). Small business loans and crowdfunding will also finance a start-up business.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. This changed their interest from managing your board for their liquidity to managing the board for all shareholders. They’ve created virtual IPO’s for founders and employees via late-stage private financing.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

[Email readers, continue here…] There are also clauses in many such investor documents that allow the investor to override the founder and force a sale of the company if a proposed sale is attractive to an investor for liquidity, even if the founder feels that there is much more potential if the business is not sold at the present time.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. He tells me the firm has made 21 investments since mid-2010, and Correlation now has more than $165 million under management. New York ›.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. A veteran board can bring 50-100x more experience into a board meeting than a first time founder. From a founder’s point of view there are three reasons for board meetings. Wastes Founders Time.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. A veteran board can bring 50-100x more experience into a board meeting than a first time founder. From a founder’s point of view there are three reasons for board meetings. Wastes Founders Time.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. The limited partners may themselves run the gamut from individuals, family offices, venture capital funds to institutional LPs. They have 4-10 partners who are investing on their behalf.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2015

Our deeply held beliefs are fundamental to our values, although we are comfortable challenging them regularly to make sure they are deeply held, and make modifications on occasion when we learn new things but only after a lot of thought and discussion, among ourselves and with several of our very close limited partners.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Today, startup founders focus on the fundamental challenges of our time with energy, life sciences and industrial technologies dominating Houston’s tech scene. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

million of limited partner commitments--a huge and exciting first step. Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways.

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This happens both to investors and entrepreneurs as well as colleagues or co-founders. . One partner may have a different appetite for risk in comparison to another. There may be differing opinions about how to manage a portfolio and so forth. It happens to VC's too. The style of investing or the stage can change.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Money management is a very odd business because what we are assessed on is, to borrow a phrase, “judgment.” On Sushi and VC.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. A veteran board can bring 50-100 times more experience into a board meeting than a first-time founder. There are no standards for what each side (board versus management) does.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2010

[Email readers continue here.] There are also clauses in many such investor documents that allow the investor to override the founder and force a sale of the company if a proposed sale is attractive to an investor for liquidity, even if the founder feels that there is much more potential if the business is not sold at the present time.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

You can’t get paid for sitting on the sidelines – I always tell people that when recessions start managers in large companies get rewarded for cutting costs. The more Machiavellian the manager is the quicker he/she rises. When you start to visualize your own portfolio exits your checkbook becomes more available for new deals.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The formula will be based on the founders experience, schools they attended and other background information to gauge the likelihood of success. My first reaction is incredulity that limited partners would buy into this idea. Labels: entrepreneur , seed investing , venture capital , venture financing. Steve Bennet.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wasnt sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decidedto ask the founders of the startups wed funded. So I sent all the founders an email asking what surprised them aboutstarting a startup. Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. What hadnt Iwritten about yet?

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Ampex business took off when Terman introduced Ampex founder Alex Poniatoff to Joseph and Henry McMicking. The limited partnership offered one way to structure an investment company.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

For founders reading this, hope its help you better understand how investors think and address it in your pitch. For the market to develop, new talent must come in to the space, and developers, designers, product managers etc, who are looking to enter this space must go through the ‘rabbit hole’ and face the steep learning curve.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. We’re trying to limit our exposure.”

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