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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you get into a high-growth company and you have asymmetric information on how the management team is performing?—?this

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Venture Capital IPO Mezzanine Early Stage 292

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I am generally a fan for providing management updates periodically for all investors but in doing so you must assume that what you send out will get read by others and thus hold back on your most sensitive information.

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SEC Venture Capital Early Stage Cofounder 352

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In case you’re keeping score at home — that’s approximately the size of 65 US seed-stage funds managed by one company. Baidu alone raised $3.2 billion in venture capital funds with one A-round fund and one late-stage fund. Those two investments represent the equivalent of another 32 US seed-stage funds just in two deals.

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Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Kuwait Burn Rate 150

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MAY 23, 2010

VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). They trust the judgment of the VCs to source, finance, help manage and then create some sort of exit for the investments that they make. You can only really know this for sure if you’ve been in these shoes.

Startup 290

Startup Burn Rate Warrant Bankruptcy 290

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

You can’t get paid for sitting on the sidelines – I always tell people that when recessions start managers in large companies get rewarded for cutting costs. The more Machiavellian the manager is the quicker he/she rises. When you start to visualize your own portfolio exits your checkbook becomes more available for new deals.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

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JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. People who manage processes make more sales.

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JUNE 29, 2017

This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years.

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Los Angeles Las Vegas Venture Capital San Francisco 287

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MARCH 1, 2010

I’m on the record as saying I’m 70% management, 30% market. But when I’m looking to invest the dollars that my Limited Partners have entrusted my firm with I’m going with my view. His logic was, “when I invested the management team knew that I wanted a multi-hundred million dollar exit so they shouldn’t be surprised.

Entrepreneur 321

Entrepreneur Warrant Silicon Valley Early Stage 321

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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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