Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). Should they care?

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

VC Adventure

MAY 19, 2016

Things such as our “no a s” rule, what we (along with our friends at Techstars) now call #givefirst , putting entrepreneurs first and including all of our employees (and Pledge 1%) in our carried interest all came out of these discussions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Group is worth noting for: Investing their own private money, Reid Dennis would found Institutional Venture Partners in 1974 First group specifically investing in the valley’s electronics industry SBIC Act of 1958 During the cold war the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union in 1957 both traumatized and galvanized the United States.

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Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 125

Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

This is the feeling you get from watching the venture capitalists talk about the entrepreneurs and other investors in the film. I''m all for transparency, but won''t be naming names in this post as I don''t want to put some entrepreneurs in a difficult position. Startup outcomes tend to be very binary.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 46

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. And I think it’s at best bad form (and at worst outright deception) when VCs who have little or no capital to make new investments aren’t clear with entrepreneurs about their situation.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

These folks are accessible across any industry and are particularly useful for entrepreneurs who have moved beyond the seed stage of financing, but don’t yet have the significant revenue needed to court venture capital funding. Solid Organizational Processes. Driving sponsorships for your startup is a numbers game.

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Programming Sweat Equity Startup Private Equity 40

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The General Partners (GPs) are the operating guys. The money that the GPs and other employees of the firm invest comes from Limited Partners (LPs) — typically the big university endowments, retirement funds, charitable organizations, family offices and high net-worth individuals. of the size of the fund.

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IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

I am not sure how many entrepreneurs understand the structure of venture capital funds but the bottom line is that while VCs manage funds, we ultimately report to our investors or Limited Partners (LPs). In these conference you typically have a similar ratio, 20% VCs or those with the money and 80% entrepreneurs or those seeking funds.

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LP Private Equity Due Diligence Venture Capital 60