Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. 2007 was the watershed year. But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc).
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals.
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www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
Coats says they each had spent more than a decade in venture investing at that time, and agreed that the process of funding new companies had become “way too time-consuming” for entrepreneurs and most VCs. We are literally getting hallelujahs from entrepreneurs for making the decision in record time,” Coats says. Connect with Xconomy.
David Teten
DECEMBER 24, 2015
The question some of our limited partners ask us is, “Why?”. Additionally, the Canadian government has significantly more rational immigration policies for foreign entrepreneurs than America, encouraging talented people globally to come to Canada. We are aware of only one other U.S. ff VC company.
K9 Ventures
MAY 14, 2011
This is probably the very first group that an entrepreneur who is starting out may approach for some funding for his or her idea. They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. Pooled resources or Limited Partners. Source of Funds.
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 19, 2012
As a reminder, LPs, or limited partners, are the investors in venture capital funds. The data shows that there were over 150 such exits for US companies, up from around 100 per year in the previous peak in 2005-2007, whereas Europe has yet to exceed the 40 or so deals at this level we were seeing at that time. Portfolio update.
Altgate
MAY 1, 2009
The bottom line take away (for me) is that VC is capacity limited by the value of exits (M&A plus IPOs). Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged entrepreneur , exits , IPO , limited partners , M&A , private equity , startup , venture capital.
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