Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. I remember a few years ago people (LPs mostly) used to ask me why I didn’t have any realized returns to show. 5 years ago. The monkey on my back. ” Yup.
Version One Ventures
JANUARY 31, 2024
Areas of interest: crypto, climate, deep tech, India (& any truly unique/differentiated strategy) Must focus on pre-seed/seed, ideally < $20m fund size. The first is the fund that you would ideally raise if LP capital was not a constraining factor. Or an LP wants to anchor the fund, but asks for a large piece of the carry.
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Genuine VC
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
The famed business strategist Michael Porter described a set of successful general strategies which firms employ to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage: differentiation strategy and cost leadership strategy for those firms with a broad market scope, and a segmentation strategy for those with a narrow market scope.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
At the other end of the spectrum large funds have gotten even larger in the past few years which has massively increased the amount of consolidation in our industry as 66% of LP money into venture is now concentrated in late-stage or full-cycle VCs. Why is this?
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. About Capital Factory Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Austin, the number one startup city in the U.S.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 16, 2012
Taking a pragmatic and realistic view of the opportunity size today is sometimes mistaken for a lack of ambition or a lack of belief in the entrepreneur/company vision. This advice isn’t always terribly popular. So I was pleased to see this morning that Dave McClure thinks about things in a similar way. This strategy is called “Niche to Win”.
Hunter Walker
MAY 18, 2015
An addition to the portfolio typically offers some differentiation or new value proposition. We triangulate with investors, entrepreneurs and large company operators to assess probability of success and ability to attract in-demand entrepreneurs.
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