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View from Seed
DECEMBER 11, 2019
But even at the Partner-level, the amount of transition in Venture Capital is much more than you perhaps would expect… especially in a business which should have a long term orientation with portfolio investment-hold periods and Partnerships lasting more than a decade. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. Or at least venture-style returns. Many LPs want to write checks of $10 million or $25 million because they themselves have billions of dollars to manage.
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Agile VC
OCTOBER 23, 2012
It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles. The same is not true for venture capital of course, since the underlying startups VCs invest in aren’t publicly selling their equity.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 1) Manage the firm . Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.
David Teten
JULY 25, 2017
We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).
The Equity Kicker
MAY 20, 2013
Short run manufacturing is getting cheaper and cheaper due to robot manufacturing and improved supply chain management techniques. Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free.
David Teten
DECEMBER 12, 2017
(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.
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