SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.
David Teten
MARCH 2, 2013
An article on the New Enterprise Associates blog by Partner Tom Grossi , however, makes an interesting point: most of the megafunds were raised since 1999, a period in which the entire industry did poorly. It’s not impossible to manage a large fund for high returns, but it’s empirically very difficult.
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Professor VC
JUNE 20, 2011
And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 29, 2014
This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. Lee’s posts also appear regularly on View From Seed. Subscribe here for more. The first is a staff constraint.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2009
Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc. Blog at WordPress.com.
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