David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2017

So I put together some notes on how to due diligence a management team, from the point of view of a prospective colleague. Brad’s colleague Linkel Eakman, a prominent limited partner, published his guide: A Human User Interface….with MANAGEMENT DOMAINS. The post Ready to Join a New Management Team?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

From data integrity software to healthcare management services, Hauser Private Equity has seen the value in businesses that exist in the in-between of raw materials and consumer goods, and how such companies have the ability to bring about realized gains for investors. Healthcare.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2017

Historically, the process of winning capital from limited partners has been opaque. A few years ago, I presented at an Invesco conference on Emerging GPs, and one of the highlights was a presentation by Laurie Weir summarizing CALPERS’ selection criteria under their Private Equity Emerging Manager Program Review.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Either way, VC funds aren't really built around creating much of an experience for their Limited Partners. Rather than see LP interactions as a chore or a burden, new fund managers should see this as an opportunity to extend the community around their fund. For smaller funds, I think this is a real mistake.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The trends described above in VC performance have an upstream effect on Limited Partners which is somewhat counter-intuitive. Most LPs are trying to manage some targeted asset allocation. And over time, if VC is performing well, the LP may actively manage up their allocation to venture. LP Constraints.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Limited partners (LPs), who manage the capital that gets deployed into venture capital funds, can play an important role in diversifying the funding landscape. Limited partners are pension funds, university endowments, funds of funds (who get their money from pension funds), family offices and foundations.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

She told me that most of her Limited Partners (investors in her fund) didn’t seem to care about the frequency of capital account statements. The post Micro-VC fund management and capital account statements appeared first on Hi, I'm David G.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Limited Partners (LPs) who back funds don’t expect their dollars to be passive. But gone are the days where VCs put dollars into companies and ask founders to step aside quickly so that the VC can install their favorite management team. Can I really manage a 7-person board plus 2 board observers? Legally speaking.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). BTW, Angel investors do not have limited partners, and often invest for reasons other than just for financial gain (e.g., The Deal With the Devil.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2014

management fee. It''s only a little bit of a performance drag, though, because management fees act like a loan. You charge your limited partners this, but you have to pay it back before you start taking a cut of the profits. If you''re looking to make a lot of dough in the short term, microVC isn''t for you.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. 4) Manage deal flow.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Foundry Network , as we’ve been calling it, encompasses founders, CEOs, executives, general partners of our underlying venture capital fund investments, limited partners (our investors as well as other investors in the funds we have investments in), and other members of our ecosystem.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Early liquidity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). and the bigger funds can’t get in directly.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . – Hire more non-Partner staff.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2014

The result has been a “regression to the mean” - with alpha performance by fund managers being driven as much by randomness and luck (as it has been with public market mutual funds for decades) as by coherent design. With now over one thousand active U.S. This all costs money. So what to do?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

They tolerate you and your management when the numbers are a bit murky but with an explanation that is believable and correctable. We know why investors “join” your company… So be aware that professional investors are in your company for the eventual large profits at the liquidity event. That’s just the facts.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 billion under management.&# I don’t really understand why VCs do this since it’s mostly a meaningless number. What is total assets under management? -

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I work hard to create working relationships with my fellow non-management board members in the same way that every investor ultimately works to develop strong working relationships with founders. Every year I invited my largest investors to NYC to have an LPAC meeting (Limited Partner Advisory Committee?—?kind

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Thoughtful fund management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Thoughtful fund management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

They didn't care about you when you needed commercial credit, but now--now they want to manage your money. The problem is that there are fantastic opportunities out there with completely trustworthy managers. You've never dealt with these expensive suit Wall Street types and don't want to. Welcome to family office investing.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

Discount Unicorns – Tiger Global opened its entire portfolio for individual bids in order to provide liquidity to its limited partners, often selling stakes in unicorns at steep discounts. Zombiecorns – according to Calcaslist, these companies aren’t showing the growth, or earnings needed to keep their unicorn status.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Google My Business , which helps me manage my Google presence. . I welcome suggestions.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. For example, our limited partners have major ownership interests in such companies as Adidas , LafargeHolcim (largest building materials manufacturer in the world), and SuperNAP International (developer of data center facilities worldwide; used by Amazon, Intel and Microsoft).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. We’re trying to limit our exposure.”

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Gust

MAY 7, 2014

The general partners of a venture capital fund make money… …by raising the bulk of the capital that the fund’s investable capital from “Limited Partners”, usually institutions such as university endowments, insurance companies and pension funds. This is the money that is invested into the startups.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. On Sushi and VC.

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

You would presume that management would in these situations raise an alarm and make sure that things are addressed before they are irreparable. The same goes for the LP's (limited partners) that invest in venture funds. Internal politics being what they are at companies, most managers go quiet when real trouble starts to brew.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Foundry Network , as we’ve been calling it, encompasses founders, CEOs, executives, general partners of our underlying venture capital fund investments, limited partners (our investors as well as other investors in the funds we have investments in), and other members of our ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. But both seed investors and LPs alike agree that as long as these programs are managed sensibly, their existence is useful.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Typical questions: What do you think of management? If you’re a seed fund that raised money from limited partners your fiduciary responsibility is to “make a buck.&# But I bet his broader point was to tone down the rhetoric and stop with inside baseball. People call their friends. How well do you know them?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

People all across the value chain have taken notice including Limited Partners who are the people who invest in VC funds in the first place. Why prorata rights are now sought out by LPs. But I can’t secretly take 50% while offering angels 0%. That seems fair. We are all bound to the same economics.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. I asked Brian Parks, Managing Partner, Bigfoot Capital, about the impact of RBI on traditional VC. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6%

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Their fiduciary responsibility was to manage a portfolio of investments for their limited partners. At the end of the day VC’s have to provide their limited partners with great returns or they aren’t going to be able to raise another fund. If you succeed so do they.

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