Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We then do a cocktail party so that everybody can have informal conversations (including LP to LP) and then we do a dinner in a private room at a restaurant. Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media. I call these “filibuster” boards.

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LP Startup Burn Rate Stock Options 269

Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2023

Last August, Rajesh Setty sent me an email request from Soundarya when the book was just an idea. It’s filled with raw stories of high-skilled immigrants who walked unconventional paths and actionable guidance to navigate those paths. Soundarya shared her vision for the book and why she wanted to write it.

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United States LP India Campaign 83

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. They helped us establish 2 GP entities, 2 LP entities, and 1 Cayman entity (for international investors) in ~2 months. We offer investors venture economics with public market liquidity. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2011

On my run today I was thinking about GP – LP interactions. The interaction was I had with one of my LPs over the last 24 hours. They emailed asking for a reference on someone who indicated they knew me and had invested with me. I was also able to get some specific one degree of separation feedback for my LP.

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LP Email Conversion Entrepreneur 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you get into the best deals it has never been a better time to be a VC or LP, and the best have developed strategies to capture more value Given that the best deals are pushing out their exit dates it means that many firms aren’t seeing as quick of liquidity as they might have 20 years ago. Still reading?

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Venture Capital IPO Mezzanine Early Stage 292

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2014

Once Homebrew invests we don’t sit back and wait for the occasional “hey can you intro us to the head of Android” email. raising capital, building LP relationships, infrastructure and platform investments, recruiting for firm, budget/audit, evaluating overall firm strategy and performance. Hey, want to grab a coffee?

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Software Review Balance Sheet Cofounder Technical Review 102

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can. The goal of an LP is to get into the top decile. When it went to raise its fund 10 years ago the rumor was that many LPs were disappointed with recent returns and did not re-up. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. hours / day.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We’re sending it directly to people’s email boxes but I figured we might as well make it public so you all have access to it. Up next I’ll publish all of the LP (people who invest in VCs) data we gathered and what we believe this signifies. It’s linked to here where you can download it or embedded below.

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Burn Rate LP Curation Valuation 150

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. See How Emerging Venture Capital Fund Managers Should Think About Their LP Fundraising Strategies. Use online networks to more efficiently identify the right potential LPs.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2014

Venture funding goes ballistic: VCJ : Some people are starting to call the top of the current cycle, at least in the context of flows of LP funds into VC firms. We had our LP Annual Meeting yesterday and I had a vibrant conversation with a few of our LPs about this topic at lunch.

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LP Denver Colorado Government 126

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2016

As I sat in my warm office catching up on email from the week, I sent links to our Foundry Group videos to a friend that had never seen them. Maybe the next one will be called “I’m an LP.” It’s Sunday and it’s -8 degrees in Boulder. And Seth – well – enough said.

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LP Video Partner Email 70

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

We are proud to be an LP in Manu Kumar’s third fund. Not surprisingly, Manu still had our first email exchange. My partner Lindel just put a post up on the Foundry Group website about our investment in K9 Ventures. I’ve been friends with Manu since 2009 and an investor (personally) in his first two funds.

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LP Engineer Conversion Partner 91

The Next Web

JUNE 27, 2013

Arjun also serves as a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an LP at 500Startups, and is an angel investor and advisor to multiple Silicon Valley startups. Prior to ReTargeter , Arjun was the Head of Business Development at Yahoo! Real Estate, and an investment banker specializing in the technology sector at Jefferies Broadview.

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Video Investment Bankers United States Silicon Valley 114

Version One Ventures

JUNE 3, 2013

Helping with reporting for our investors, including writing quarterly updates and preparing LP advisory board meetings. Your email should contain 2 things: First, I am looking for links that represent you. Working with existing portfolio companies, including helping out with hiring, financial modeling, and research.

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Hiring North America Los Angeles Advisory Board 156

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge. Jaime Hildreth, Managing Director of GP and LP Strategies at Ipreo , informed us that 97% of Ipreo’s GP clients report that data requests from LP’s have increased over the past two years.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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. The geographic breakdown of our 123 direct investments follows: Twelve years later, we were pretty close.

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North Dakota Southern California San Diego Indianapolis 70

The Next Web

JUNE 26, 2013

Arjun also serves as a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an LP at 500Startups, and is an angel investor and advisor to multiple Silicon Valley startups. Prior to ReTargeter, Arjun was the Head of Business Development at Yahoo! Real Estate, and an investment banker specializing in the technology sector at Jefferies Broadview.

United States 114

United States Investment Bankers Silicon Valley Founder 114

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). 7 times out of 10 he knows what’s going on before I do and is either slipping a paper on my desk, texting me or emailing me something about to go down.

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Los Angeles Early Stage LP Partner 150

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. “I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining [New Firm] as a Partner where I will continue to invest in great Founders across the industries I care about.”. “I

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Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

David Teten

MAY 4, 2011

Bennett, Ground Swell Equity Partners LP. 0, or email her at ag@capitalroundtable.com. The conference is being chaired by Bob Fitzsimmons, of High Road Capital Partners. It’s in Midtown Manhattan. Among the other speakers: - Robert P. Christopher A. Gebelein, Private Equity Growth Advisors LLC. Luke Johnson, Platinum Equity LLC.

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Private Equity LLC LP Equity 122

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. 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.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I had interacted with the entrepreneur over email – taking a look at the initial business plan and setting up the meeting – but we hadn’t met in person before. I recently waked into a pitch meeting for a social networking related business and was surprised by what I saw.

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LP Venture Capital Early Stage Social Network 90

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I walked home and spent a few hours grinding through email. I’m guessing that Jamey was the LP in the post that Jo is referring to, since the principles of business love, that Jo refers to, are exactly what we talked about. It was awesome and one of my favorite days of the month. I remembered my conversation with Jamey.

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LP Venture Capital Conversion Restful 152

Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Since you are no longer so in demand, you can actually walk the floor, talk to people, sit and get some emails done and so forth. LP''s.what''s that? Now, I''m down to two or three a week (see the irony.why am I still receiving business plans?). You have more time at events! You start to actually listen instead of talk in meetings. .

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LP Portfolio Business Plan Demand 99

Andrew Payne

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

As a modestly active angel investor and an LP in several venture funds, I hear many, many startup pitches. If you’re interested, please email an overview of your company by Oct 3. Also, investors frequently pass with a vague “no”, without sharing the underlying reason(s).

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LP Startup Angel Investor Software 84

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

You could easily guess their email addresses or ping them on Twitter?—?don’t. I figured I was wasting my time unless the LP was leaning in on my first meeting. The hardest thing is that after you’ve had a great first meeting with a VC (or LP) you expect it’s all going to start happening! No matter how tempting it is.

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LP San Francisco Minneapolis Partner 215

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2010

It generated several hundred email responses and a handful of phone calls. I didn’t count them up, but I got well over 100 emails from all over the US. I received private emails from each of my partners containing a slightly different version of “are you out of your fucking mind?”. LPs : I only had one email from an LP.

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Term Sheet LP Finance Email 118

Hunter Walker

JULY 19, 2017

If the Scout is passing along your email updates and investor updates to their sponsoring fund, you should know it. This can happen quietly without your knowledge, or because the sponsoring fund is a GP or LP in the Scout fund. This is the most important question of the three. Information is power.

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Founder Silicon Valley Cap Table LP 69

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I had interacted with the entrepreneur over email – taking a look at the initial business plan and setting up the meeting – but we hadn’t met in person before. I recently waked into a pitch meeting for a social networking related business and was surprised by what I saw.

LP 48

LP Venture Capital Early Stage Social Network 48

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Thus, many LPs have outsourced their investment management processes to professional investment consultants (ICs). Here lies the two degrees of separation: the agent must get to the IC, who in turn must get to the LP. This creates opacity and long-term relationship risk, and makes it harder for the intermediary to add value.” .

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

Andrew Payne

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

As a modestly active angel investor and an LP in several venture funds, I hear many, many startup pitches. If you’re interested, please email an overview of your company by Oct 3. Also, investors frequently pass with a vague “no”, without sharing the underlying reason(s).

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LP Startup Angel Investor Software 54

Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

Yesterday I sent emails out passing on participating in two seed rounds for companies I really like. We don’t expect anything for this other than a role as a typical LP, but we view it as increasing the seed ecosystem.

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Seed Stage LP Warrant Syndicate 138

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. Email This BlogThis! ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, November 19, 2009. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Thats enough to keep me teaching! Steve Bennet. at 4:34 PM.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. When I get these inevitable emails or calls I respond the same way, “It’s a shame for me that I’m too late to your process.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Rob Go

JULY 25, 2011

In the meantime, a weekly or bi-weekly update I think is helpful to keep investors caught up (I prefer this in email form because it’s more efficient for everyone). 5. ” Remember, we all tell our LP’s that we are immensely helpful to our portfolio companies, so make us follow through on that!

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Due Diligence LP Seed Stage Portfolio 38

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Spreading the word : gain awareness of your firm; define and spread your message Email is quite effective at keeping top of mind. Build and maintain large email database. Question : How do you handle in-bound emails? Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A. Prestegaard, High Road Capital Parnters.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Send emails asking permission to feature any images or logos along with their testimonial on your landing page. Seems like a pretty big payout in exchange for setting up a few filters and sending a few emails, no? Email once a week. So its clear that how important LP’s are. Your Email *. Rating: 4.3/

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Analytics Software Review Conversion Video 98