VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Taking stock of the venture capital market in 2023, it’s clear to see that we’re in a transition point. For the past 10 years, with interest rates near zero, VC investors plowed record amounts into tech startups and enjoyed a seemingly ‘easy’ investing environment. Don’t just take it from me.
David Teten
JANUARY 23, 2021
The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update.
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David Teten
MAY 20, 2016
My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Membership in the Meetup is open exclusively to: Institutional investors in private markets (VC, growth, buyout, distressed, etc.) I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Yet, according to my own surveys, a majority of private capital funds (including funds that specialize in fintech!) But we’re doing it slowly.
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!". The interesting thing is that being connected to wealth isn't necessarily a driver of good venture capital performance--why would it be?
David Teten
APRIL 13, 2021
Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Greycroft’s results give you a sense of the complexity involved: The firm said it had 515 contacts with potential LPs; roughly 250 passed for various reasons and 100 were non-responsive. million venture fund.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Why is this?
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