This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I took my last LP meeting the first week of March and clearly, I didn’t close anyone that I had met with at that time. I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community. It was the first anyone had asked me about it. He seemed paranoid.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2020

by Dr. Jim White , founder and president of JL White International and bestselling author of “ Opportunity Investing: How To Revitalize Urban And Rural Communities With Opportunity Funds “ COVID-19 has disrupted the business world, and the “normal” of a few months ago may never return. and Growers Ice Company, Inc.,

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. Community : Building out Homebrew WW HQ in SF which at any time houses a couple of portfolio companies and founders pre-funding. We make available coworking space for free.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. We particularly help companies in winning revenue from our LP network and raising capital for subsequent rounds from top-tier late-stage investors. This evolves the VC from a server to a router.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 13, 2020

” I knew Austin from his time at TenOneTen Ventures (we are an LP) and I reconnected with him when he joined the Kauffman Fellows Program (Class 25). Grid110 is a non-profit with a mission is to foster the most thriving, inviting and inclusive community for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

As a person who spends much time thinking about the venture capital & startup community and who has seen good times & bad times across many economic cycles the article is well written. Instant growth = huge valuation from follow-on investors = big VC mark-up on our quarterly reports = LP interest. Grow or die.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But for now … Every year we run a big VC, LP & Tech Summit in Los Angeles (this year downtown) to showcase the best of our community and invite others from around the country. And what’s up with this crazy new blog design? Well … more on that next week. I will tell more.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

This comes on the heals of Upfront managing director Mark Suster’s great post titled Embracing Your Community as a Strategy which I encourage you to read as it is magnificent. In the last five years, there has been an explosion of startup activity in LA that continues to be exciting as the startup community grows and evolves.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. They helped us establish 2 GP entities, 2 LP entities, and 1 Cayman entity (for international investors) in ~2 months. We held our first close on August 1, 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

He understands our issues as a community and vows to help keep LA Tech on the map. To attract LP money to local VCs. And let’s elect a mayor who knows that building a vibrant tech community is the key to LA’s continued growth and innovation. LA needs Garcetti. He would be the first tech mayor of our city.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Lower level of community familiarity. Zack Mueller, Attorney, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC , points that almost “no one, from LPs to entrepreneurs to attorneys, has much experience with these instruments. Of the Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Does Lindel agree with Chris Douvos in stating this could lead to the ‘hybridisation of GP and LP’? Where do most prospective fund managers fail when pitching to LPs? What are the biggest problems with the LP community today? What do the financial compensation plans look like for LPs?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

Build a long-term LP based, anchored by diverse asset types (Universities, Endowments, Family Offices, Pensions, Insurance Companies, Sovereign Wealth Funds & Fund of Funds). He’s pushed us to be out in the community more. He’s proved much more efficient that I ever was at tracking the activities of the community.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2020

Hoffman Institute is a one-week intensive on-site program, leveraging therapy, meditation, experiential exercises and peer-to-peer community, designed to break the most formative negative patterns from our childhood. As an LP in Freestyle, I’m extremely excited to see their leadership in this area.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

As competitive as venture capital often seems, we are incredibly humbled by the amount of support and love we have gotten over the years from our community. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs. Many of you have been investors since the first fund and we are thankful for all the continued support and confidence.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. In the early morning, a show of hands revealed about a 20% LP audience and 80% fund manager group.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

That's what led me to open up an office in Brooklyn--where half of the people in the New York City startup community call home. Another GA community member introduced me to the team at KEC holdings. It's incredibly rewarding to help people find positions at exciting high growth companies with great founders at the helm.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. There have been many times at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures where I’m leading a deal and after our co-invest call, an LP wants to put in just $10k. Access to other investors.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

10/ Community is a moat. Yes, but it turns out physical spaces lost out this year and virtual spaces and communities won the day (year?). Operating as a sort of fund-of-funds model there is an economy of scale program for figuring out the GP/LP structure, working out the services providers like legal, audit, and tax handling.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Rather than see LP interactions as a chore or a burden, new fund managers should see this as an opportunity to extend the community around their fund. That happens most when the LPs represent a diverse group of industries and perspectives who want to be helpful to portfolio companies and founders.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

While I don’t have portfolio level stats for them, their new endeavor Foundry Next (to invest in smaller funds and then follow-on into key investments) has built up an LP basket of 23 positions in a variety of new VC funds. Hopefully, we will continue to help develop and expand existing and new startup communities.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

On paper, only one is in positive return territory as a fund, but the SBIC leverage is a substantial negative factor for the LP investors in that particular fund. As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We recently completed the final close of NextView Ventures, LP and we’re excited about both our progress to date and our plans for the future. These include many of our colleagues in the VC industry, folks from our prior firms, and a handful of people in the LP community who offered constructive guidance.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2018

My partners and I just announced that our long-time friend and LP – Jamey Sperans – has joined Foundry Group. We’ve been working with Jamey since the beginning of Foundry Group in 2007 (he was one of our first LPs via Morgan Stanley AIP) and have become extremely close friends.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 28, 2017

For VCs, annual LP meetings are combination Board Meeting + Community Event. Several founders gave 10-12 minute updates on their companies, and then, a dinner with our LPs, Homebrew founders and fund advisors. We spent an afternoon with our investors, providing updates on fund performance, market dynamics and future plans.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Cindy Revol, Joe Beard and Anurag Jain from Perot Jain, LP We received a warm welcome from Trey Bowles when we first came to Dallas and there have been many others who have opened their arms to us since. We are glad that Capital Factory is in Dallas and thrilled to see that they are also community builders who grow through collaboration.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. But in the LP world there is an obsession with “top quartile” benchmarking in the near term, which drives skewed incentives for newer VCs to show quick returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. The Funding Problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. So what can a community do?

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

GPs strategically invite trusted [Limited Partners and others] to co-invest, often based on the LP’s ability to add value or when the amount of capital required to complete an attractive transaction is larger than they are able to invest alone.”.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

So I would start by sharing with the fund an institutional LP due diligence checklist , and ask them to share their data room with you. If you are one of six in the LP relationship area, you will have less leverage than if you are a new hire with the only European LP relationships.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Partner 60

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

It’s been a pretty popular move for New York area politicians to jump on the bandwagon of the emergence of New York tech growth—a phenomenon they largely had nothing to do with—and say they’re supportive of the community. It’s an embarrassment, frankly, to our tech community.

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ithacaVC

MAY 4, 2011

“Horse trading” is a bad phrase in the startup/VC community. Let’s say that the Series A liquidation preference (LP) is 1X and that the Series B LP is 1.5X. The Series C investor negotiates a term sheet that provides for the Series C to be senior to the A and B and also for the Series C to have a 1X LP.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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