thebarefootvc
JULY 3, 2017
I later became convinced that my different perspective (female, immigrant, global) enhanced my ability to see opportunities where others didn’t. Limited partners (LPs), who manage the capital that gets deployed into venture capital funds, can play an important role in diversifying the funding landscape.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. That role as sparring partner can be useful if for nothing else than to test your resolve. What Rob wrote in his post is right.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. Summary: Cheap, mobile, social, global, always-on, one-click-purchase =. Why is this? The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more
David Teten
AUGUST 15, 2013
Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. Some corporations emulate this model by creating their own wholly-owned VC entities, typically with one LP: the corporate balance sheet. 1) Corporate Venture Capital.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.
Haystack
JUNE 1, 2018
Perhaps because of this success and the unique elbow grease they supply to their portfolio, it was shocking to many to see that one of the storied seed franchises would contract, become its own sole LP, and scale back its operations. Some established VC brands are rumored to be cutting back their LPs a bit to keep money in-house.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.
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