This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
I know how hard it is myself because I used to vet VCs for a living when I was on the insitituional LP side. Sometimes, the family hires some really fantastic people to run the investment of their assets. Angellist, Gust, etc all made searching for and comparing deals much easier.
Version One Ventures
JULY 24, 2019
You may recall that we opened a search for an associate last summer. Unfortunately, we didn’t find someone who was the right fit for us – and decided to take a short break from the search. Reporting for our investors, including writing quarterly updates and preparing LP advisory board meetings.
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David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . – Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? Few people have it. Why should I be?
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 10, 2014
Venture funding goes ballistic: VCJ : Some people are starting to call the top of the current cycle, at least in the context of flows of LP funds into VC firms. We had our LP Annual Meeting yesterday and I had a vibrant conversation with a few of our LPs about this topic at lunch. Heartbleed: What Is The Correct Response?
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. But beyond that, not much.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence.
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