David Teten
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Venture Associate at Quake Capital Partners in New York City, describes their deal sourcing approach as follows: “We use a new Web Interface to collect information from our applicants in a standardized manner. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?
Mucker Lab
MARCH 8, 2016
Just as entrepreneurs should aspire to raise capital from value-added, “smart money” investors, we, too, have focused on partnering with committed, long-term, institutional limited partners (LPs). With a well-capitalized fund, great LPs, and a solid portfolio, we are privileged to continue serving exceptional entrepreneurs.
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Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. If the limited partners of these VC’s acted like real fiduciaries rather than waiting for the end of life of the fund, more than half of old-line venture firms would have shut themselves down today.).
David Teten
AUGUST 18, 2017
To the extent possible, we try to use our social media presence to point back to our website, our Partners, and/or our portfolio companies’ websites. Fundamentally, we control our web presence. These often link to specific pages on our website. Social media presence. Cross-posted on Entrepreneur.com.
www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
“They both got very excited about the idea,” says Coats, who says he also studied the work of Harry Markowitz, a pioneer in portfolio theory (now a professor of finance at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management). Raising the firm’s initial $165 million was a three-year overnight success,” Coats says. Xconomy on Demand. Dont despair….
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.
The Next Web
MARCH 8, 2014
That means the VC’s own investors (the “Limited Partners” or LPs) pay them $3 million a year to manage a $150 million fund, an expense that is debited from any profit sharing down the road on the investments. That $150 million doesn’t just sit in your bank account on Day 1 of your venture fund.
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