Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately. It is rare to find somebody who matches exactly what I’m looking for in a partner so when you find it you act: Academic rigor (Princeton undergrad, Stanford MBA).
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Emmanuel de Watteville, General Partner and Co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures, has been part of the startup ecosystem since 2003. He has acquired extensive experience in coaching, creating, managing, developing and financing more than 200 high-tech startups across several sectors, including the medical and information technologies.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
Typical questions: What do you think of management? We discuss deal structures. If you’re a seed fund that raised money from limited partners your fiduciary responsibility is to “make a buck.&# But I bet his broader point was to tone down the rhetoric and stop with inside baseball. People call their friends.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 14, 2018
Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 9, 2019
What constitutes the best potential partner to work with? The CIM is a document that outlines the company being sold, its history, products and services, customers, financial performance, management team, and growth strategies. It can be very lucrative to partner with private equity. How do you find the right one?
Hunter Walker
MAY 18, 2015
The James Irvine Foundation joined us in Fund I and has been a great partner since. These managers sit in our Privates bucket and are therefore expected to beat the public markets by at least 4.5%. We probably meet with twenty venture managers a year. Emerging managers do not have track records, established franchises or teams.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
But here it’s not enough to relay on secondary research – get out there and speak to potential customers, partners and even competitors – gather evidence and interest. Evidence the plan will work – for example, there’s a similar startup in another country that’s working well.
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