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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners. portfolios.

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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

The Capital Factory Texas Fund is backed by many of the most successful CEOs and technology investors in Texas and across the U.S., Capital Factory has partnered with AngelList Rolling Funds to better meet the needs of today’s investors.

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How to Do Research on VCs (Written by a VC)

View from Seed

And of course, many individual VCs blog or have social media presences, so you can get a sense of what a particular partner is interested in or what themes they’ve concentrated on. Speaking personally as an investor and partner at NextView, I’m more than willing to answer any questions that an entrepreneur might raise.

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Every founder and startup investor should be contrarian

The Equity Kicker

Doing better than average requires what Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital called ‘different and better’ thinking in a recent memo to his investors. We work hard to have an edge at Forward Partners. Being an average investor in startups is therefore a waste of time.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

While the M&A story has been widely reported perhaps far fewer people know that Limited Partners (LPs), the people who fund VC firms, have finally been able to restock their coffers in the past 4 years with significantly more money coming to them in distributions than capital calls to fund VC firm investments.

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VC Governance FAQ: (8) How can a limited partner exit from a VC fund?

Pascal's View

Answer: The options here are limited, and they are (1) the LP can try to sell their interest, including the obligation to fund future capital calls, to a fund that acquires secondary interests. The good news is that a robust market exists for such interests in venture capital partnerships today; or (2) default.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

Both Sides of the Table

We envy them all and want to emulate them but know that they are just people dealing with struggles of a different magnitude from the pressures of going public, the pressures of pricing competition, the pressures of over-reaching of journalists and regulators and the pressures of activist public shareholders with short-term expectations.

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