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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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are no standards for what each side (board versus management) does. Here’s how. Because We’ve Always Done It This Way. The Wrong Structure.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are no standards for what each side (board versus management) does. Here’s how. Because We’ve Always Done It This Way. The Wrong Structure.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. Founders First Capital Partners defines these high performing organizations as Zebra Companies.”.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners. Austin Ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are no standards for what each side (board versus management) does. Here's how. From a VCs point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

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Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

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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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s that time of the year again– time to send out audited financial statements and K-1’s to your limited partners– which means it’s also a great time to address some of the common questions that investors raise about VC partnership governance and disclosure issues. entitled to receive from a VC fund?

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. It’s not impossible to manage a large fund for high returns, but it’s empirically very difficult.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

This is the second of three posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– The First Valley IPO’s Silicon Valley first caught the eyes of east coast investors in the late 1950’s when the valleys first three IPO’s happened: Varian in 1956, Hewlett Packard in 1957, and Ampex in 1958.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. My first reaction is incredulity that limited partners would buy into this idea. My colleague, Anu Basu , Director of the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at San Jose State , recently completed a paper on this topic, "Does Experience Matter? ProfessorVC.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Hubris , bad CEO decisions (mine) and a fundamental lack of understanding that we were in a “hits-based” entertainment business not in a Silicon Valley technology company were slowly killing us. Their fiduciary responsibility was to manage a portfolio of investments for their limited partners.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ProfessorVC. at 7:33 AM.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley. Most are centered in the main entrepreneurial hubs - Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Salt Lake - among other locales, and generally involve groups of individual investors coming together to review and diligence deals in a group review format.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley. Most are centered in the main entrepreneurial hubs - Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Salt Lake - among other locales, and generally involve groups of individual investors coming together to review and diligence deals in a group review format.

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Private Equity Technical Review Silicon Valley Los Angeles 63

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ProfessorVC. Thursday, September 24, 2009.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2015

To benefit from the explosive growth of companies like Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc, you had to fit in either one of two categories: be an angel investor already in an inner circle of experienced angels and entrepreneurs, largely located in Silicon Valley, or be an investor in a venture capital fund that backed those companies.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The reason VCs seem formidable is that its their profession to.You get to be a VC by convincing asset managers to trust you withhundreds of millions of dollars. Less coding, more managing/planning/company building, hiring, cleaning up messes, and generally getting things in place for what needs to happen a few months from now.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Answer: Actually there is plenty of financial information available from private companies, but that does not mean that it is available to institutional investors as passive investors who are Limited Partners in venture capital or other private equity partnerships.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. A few years ago I was having dinner with a friend of mine who works for one of the biggest known Silicon Valley firms. Closing text.

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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. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley.

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