Remove Lean Remove LP Remove Matching Remove Portfolio
article thumbnail

Investors Updating Their Investors: Inside Homebrew’s First Annual LP Meeting

Hunter Walker

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. On matching Google’s salaries when you should be building a culture and vision that pulls the best talent towards you with generous equity compensation instead of cash. We love our founders.

LP 97
article thumbnail

Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

Then from the mid 2000s, value add began moving beyond the partner to the firm as VCs began employing people who’s full time job was helping their portfolio. The most common strategies are to provide networking services and content to portfolio leaders so they can be more effective in their jobs. . Building platforms.

article thumbnail

An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

They either had a portfolio company in market and weren’t getting offers as quickly as expected or they knew a friend in the biz who was recounting this to them in a session VCs strangely call “comparing notes.”. Great companies get financed.