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GP/LP Fit

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9 Questions That Help Get You To GP/LP Fit. In it, Beezer goes through, in depth, the top questions she recommends you ask an LP to determine GP/LP fit. While an LP takes a lot of meetings, they don’t do a lot of investments. The post GP/LP Fit appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

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We also know many of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. If you look at the Founder Collective portfolio , you’ll see many well-recognized companies that they invested in at the very first round. As an LP, I’ve had the good fortune to be an investor in many funds, including some exceptional ones.

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Founder Mental Health Pledge

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Once it became clear that payroll accounts needed to be funded on Monday to make Wednesday’s payroll, we focused on the immediate short-term to ensure our portfolio companies’ thousands of employees got paid on time. By late Friday, anyone who banked with SVB was concerned about … well … everything.

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Podcast Saturday – Meet Lindel Eakman

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Question from Michael Kim @ Cendana: How is Lindel approaching portfolio construction for Foundry Next? What combination of GP portfolio & direct exposure diversifies the portfolio while retaining upside through individual deal performance? Where do most prospective fund managers fail when pitching to LPs?

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Freestyle’s Leadership on Mental Health

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The partners, Josh, David Samuel, and Jenny Lefcourt have announced an initiative initially focused on their portfolio founders in an effort to break down the barriers to better mental health for all in our industry. As an LP in Freestyle, I’m extremely excited to see their leadership in this area.

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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

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On paper, only one is in positive return territory as a fund, but the SBIC leverage is a substantial negative factor for the LP investors in that particular fund. As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC.

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Where Does Foundry Group Invest?

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While I don’t have portfolio level stats for them, their new endeavor Foundry Next (to invest in smaller funds and then follow-on into key investments) has built up an LP basket of 23 positions in a variety of new VC funds.