Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR), a Silicon Valley phrase which says one thing but means another. Peter described the first company in which “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” and we were enthralled.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

If you’re a venture capitalist … you have limited partners that give you money to invest on their behalf, and you’re responsible for giving them outsize returns. Will : Yes, and that was my first brutal intro into the difficulties of raising venture capital where I lived. . Nayeem : (Nods.)

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. Limited partners (LPs), who manage the capital that gets deployed into venture capital funds, can play an important role in diversifying the funding landscape.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. The best and most consistent funds in Silicon Valley (e.g.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

At our firm, ff Venture Capital , we didn’t aim to go to Canada, but ended up there anyway. We’re a New York based early-stage venture capital firm. The question some of our limited partners ask us is, “Why?”. Similarly, 31 per cent of Toronto’s CEOs have lived in Silicon Valley. ff VC company.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2021

Joe Lonsdale relocates 8VC and Jim Breyer relocates Breyer Capital. A “who’s who” list of Silicon Valley leaders moving to ATX This shift did not happen overnight?—?it Previously, the venture capital asset class has been primarily for wealthy individuals, pension funds, and large institutions.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Here’s how. Because We’ve Always Done It This Way.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Here’s how. Because We’ve Always Done It This Way.

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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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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. I liked my two investors.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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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.) in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. So here it is in five parts. Order Here.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 18, 2016

In this solid interview from a few years back (via Pando ), Chris talks bluntly about the world of startups and venture capital in the context of the firing of Ev Williams and Jack Dorsey from Twitter. Remember: VC’s have fiduciary obligations to their limited partners (i.e., Again, it’s all business.

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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. However, the conventional wisdom is that small VC funds have better performance profiles than large ones.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Here's how. Because We've Always Done It This Way.

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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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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Venture News. at 7:33 AM.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Venture Capital Will Rebound. Kedrosky thinks it will be eased by the return to the venture market of big investors like pension funds. They’ve been staying away from venture funding after getting burned in the downturn – but they’re beginning to come back. Cash now versus cash later. ” 6.

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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. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Posted in: Venture Capital.

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Babbling VC

JANUARY 7, 2011

I've read and written about it many times but I think there is one thing which is never loudly spoken about when comparing the EU to Silicon Valley (or the US in general). I personally believe that one of the major drawbacks to venture capital in Europe is chronic under-financing and people skirt around this issue.

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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). So why would raising venture capital be any different. Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Often times those involve trading within a venture capital portfolio or between two venture firms portfolios. But what about the case where both companies are well capitalized and doing well? I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity.

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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. Of course, when 10-year returns for the entire venture capital asset class is about to drop below zero, drastic measures may be in order. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the second in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. To address the broader point about accuracy in book valuation, I am concerned that the developing industry standard for venture capital is at risk of going too far while providing no real benefit to investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2015

Take venture capital, for example. Very few are ever going to wind up in the former category--so the most accessible option for most investors would have to be a venture capital fund. Below that and they need to keep you from investing in really risky stuff, like venture capital.

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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. The typical Silicon Valley term sheet does not include such terms. Competition also has access to capital.

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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. Labels: due diligence , financial analysis , venture capital. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

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. Not so venture capital. I’m happy for others to disagree.

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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. link] So here are some details (please thank & follow!

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