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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

First, the winners in most portfolios don’t often have a true recap round. That said, we definitely don’t bank on this as a firm, even though we do see ourselves playing a multi-turn game with all of our later stage coinvestors. This requires some increase in fund size even with a fairly modest sized portfolio.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

Both Sides of the Table

They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me.

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Benefits Of Documentation Management In Remote Working

YoungUpstarts

It helps you go through the documents at any later stage even if the original version differs from the latest one. His experience has enabled multinational businesses around the globe to diversify their project portfolio. Reliable Backup and Easy Recovery. In this manner, the tool helps you maintain the document versions safely.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

The Innovation Portfolio. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. What can companies learn from others’ failed efforts to integrate startups into large companies?

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What’s The Optimal Portfolio Strategy for a Venture Fund?

VC Adventure

A key question my post didn’t consider was what the ideal venture portfolio might look like in the face of these data. . The robust dinner conversation we had back in 2006 essentially asked the question: “If venture outcomes are Black Swans, what does the optimal venture portfolio construction look like?”

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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. 68% of LPs surveyed expressed caution that the late-stage part of the market is over-valued.