Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the 90s to form what is now Redpoint Ventures (IT team) and Versant Ventures (healthcare team). Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. It was May.

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur CTO Hire South America Salary 293

ithacaVC

JANUARY 10, 2012

One of my students just asked me what a “Venture Partner” is in the context of a venture capital firm. I quickly typed in “venture partner” into the Wikipedia query box. So, then I typed “venture partner definition” into the Google search box. It carries cache. No results.

Partner 49

Partner Carried Interest Caching Harvest 49

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. innovating new products and services within an already scaled business model), the processes that companies have optimized for execution inevitably interfere with the search processes needed to discover a new business model.

Startup 327

Startup Business Model Lean Russia 327

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. Partners at smaller funds, by contrast, have to hustle before they can cover their mortgage.

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LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

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. This is what makes it more difficult to scale.

IRR 48

IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48