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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

Feld Thoughts

We also know many of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. If you look at the Founder Collective portfolio , you’ll see many well-recognized companies that they invested in at the very first round. As an LP, I’ve had the good fortune to be an investor in many funds, including some exceptional ones.

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

Both Sides of the Table

It’s why I often advise angel investors to be careful about assuming that being an angel investor is a profitable exercise unless you have the ability to have a wide-enough portfolio to have a few companies doing extraordinarily well plus deep enough pockets to follow your winners. Why prorata rights are being guarded by VCs.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut. In 2014 Granger, a Ph.D.

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When Bad News Is Actually Good News

Babbling VC

For those of you not in the know, they are one of the largest limited partners ( LP's : investors in venture capital funds) in Europe and are basically in almost all the funds throughout the market. Hypothesis 3: Insufficient diversification in European VC managers’ portfolios . This too is a major pain the ass for funds in Europe.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

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Investors Updating Their Investors: Inside Homebrew’s First Annual LP Meeting

Hunter Walker

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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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

Other companies have only seen a slight decline and may be expecting demand to return to normalcy later in the year. The reality is that when unemployment sinks in demand is likely to get worse. Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? That may happen. But I doubt it. 22 million filed in just 4 weeks?—?for

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