Hiring Lead Investor Partner Reputation 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I told Ethan on the spot that I wanted to be the lead investor in his new company. Let me not bury the lede.
Babbling VC
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Co-Investors. Technically, co-investors would fall under the "People" heading above but here I'm focussing more on the funds themselves and not specific partners or people at that fund. . We picked the investor who was far better known in the market and supposedly had reach into the US. The other didn't and died! .
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Some corporate funds now lead rounds. Teten: What makes for a good vs. bad corporate venture investor?
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 1, 2021
As a corporate lawyer in private practice and in-house roles specialising in cross-border commercial and financial transactions, Maha has a solid reputation leading complex international corporate and commercial deals across multiple jurisdictions. Our customer engagement has been solid, as has our engagement with partners.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2010
First, if the VC does 15-20 of these under one partner then it is certain he can’t spend any time with these investments. I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. Signaling problems always exist - What Chris doesn’t make clear is that signaling problems exist with nearly EVERY investor.
Reid Hoffman
JANUARY 26, 2021
This is one of the reasons why the best practice for a startup is to raise investment rounds from different lead investors rather than simply doing internal rounds, even if an internal round requires less work. Finally, whether for the board or for your company, it’s not enough to hire one diverse person.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. Investors see a lot of pitches. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals.
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