IRR Later Stage Partner Venture Capital 
Hippoland
NOVEMBER 13, 2016
The #1 problem with the venture capital game, in general, is that *actual success* is measured over decades not years. A common intermediary milestone for most investors is IRR (internal rate of return) of the fund. So there are a lot of unrealized gains built into the IRR of an early fund. Let’s take this one last step.
K9 Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2008
In my previous post , I claimed that “Venture Capital is a people business in every sense of the word. Unlike investing in public markets, investing in early stage companies happens before those companies have a real business, when it is just a concept and a team, and sometimes not even a whole team.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 25, 2013
“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. The second is not.
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 12, 2023
Too many entrepreneurs tell me they are looking for an investor, and can’t differentiate between venture capital (VC) investors versus accredited angel investors. The amounts from angels start as low as $25K, while minimum venture capital amounts usually start in the $2M range. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 13, 2020
Too many entrepreneurs tell me they are looking for an investor, and can’t differentiate between venture capital (VC) investors versus accredited angel investors. The amounts from angels start as low as $25K, while minimum venture capital amounts usually start in the $2M range. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite.
David Teten
OCTOBER 15, 2013
ff Venture Capital has consistently generated a gross IRR on invested capital in excess of 30%, in a world where the average ten-year returns for venture capital firms are in the single digits. But what about venture capital firms? Now we can. Indiegogo is a ffVC portfolio company.
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