Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Trust me – that kind of encounter can mean the difference between securing a contract, protecting yourself from getting turfed or getting acquired one day. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically. Equally each of your board members are probably on 5-10 boards.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. They want to raise capital because they are highly qualified, period.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The nature of LP investors can vary widely, but the bulk of the capital in the VC ecosystem comes from large institutions like pension funds, endowments of universities and hospitals, charitable foundations, insurance companies, very wealthy families (aka family offices), and corporations. Advisory Firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

And we felt terrible not being able to let every LP in but we were forced to make some hard compromises yet we opened up our fund to Sapphire even though they were a first time LP. We have many LPs who come from industry and this is truly a value-add in a LP/VC relationship 3.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2017

The biggest area of concerns for VCs were Trump’s policy issues regarding international trade — especially China, cyber security and immigration. Again, I suspect they would be more concerned today about net neutrality, cyber security, immigration and trade more broadly.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

2) Security — we store all private keys in cold storage on air gapped computers. They helped us establish 2 GP entities, 2 LP entities, and 1 Cayman entity (for international investors) in ~2 months. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly.

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

As funds have institutionalized, seed VC’s are increasingly focused on securing a meaningful ownership stake in the companies they invest in. They are also increasingly focused on “leading” rounds, because funds that are institutionalizing get LP pressure around whether or not they lead.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

For example, Lookout is a mobile security company that was founded by three talented graduates of USC. A few years later they announced $150 million in a funding round at $1 billion+ valuation and are ramping up jobs to secure their market-leading position. I went to see several LP funds in Boston. So what can a community do?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. We are heavy users of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

And all the security and backups were being kind of managed by this company. And I guess what it means in practice is companies have shares, which are securities like stocks that can be traded out there. They're not securities, they are commodities, they're tokens of various types, rewards tokens, governance tokens.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

On the flip side, history is riddled with brilliant minds who broke new ground, and swiftly had their inventions stolen out from under them because they failed to secure the right patent at the right time. He currently holds sixteen live patents that are licensed to companies, including: Amazon, Livewatch Security LLC, Alarmforce NC Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

This new hire was a commercial hustler (code named Scott), moving quickly and broadly to try to secure customers and partners, including some of the tech industry’s largest companies. He’s an LP in several Techstars funds and a direct investor in a selection of Techstars companies. The post Mentors 18/18: Have Empathy.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

1/ Personal security as a service will emerge as a hot topic/app/service people pay for. Operating as a sort of fund-of-funds model there is an economy of scale program for figuring out the GP/LP structure, working out the services providers like legal, audit, and tax handling. So first – how did I do? Bonus: Maybe I do this.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

He surmises that LPs aren’t buying the argument that large funds don’t perform. Beyond the fact that LP capital commitments don’t prove anything about returns, however, large funds are likely much more resilient to a few bad years than small funds are. But why would any LP ever drop out of such a fund?

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 4, 2012

That post sparked a series of conversations, both online and off, about what makes a pitch great and how to best use the time a founder secures with a potential investor. We were within 6 weeks of closing, had secured most of our commitments and had not put together an investor presentation. . We have a deep loyalty to them.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

And, while working to build the business we want, a competitor in California secured resources to far outpace us. Do you want someone already making $12–17/hour watching your kid to make less (so a LP can make their returns…)? At the same time, it became clear that bootstrapping further was not an option our team could pursue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Money is the easy part.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Luckily, Google was one of the 150 and did ultimately return the fund assuming the LP was smart enough to hold the stock after distribution. Both companies offered home security and automation services through partners. I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 17, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: What happens if an LP wants to exit a VC fund? What are their rights?

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

I started using Authy for two-factor authentication to provide greater security in my digital currency trading. If I''m going to pay a fee and carry, would prefer to invest in a venture capital fund, as the investments are being managed by professionals and have a duty to look out for LP interests.

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