David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. 2) Raise capital.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

There more than 35,000 engineers working on building it, and a strong level of passion/engagement in the communities being built around this ‘New Internet’ But with that, there are also challenges, which are less discussed. Some might find this definition too limiting. Metaverse goes beyond just virtual worlds and gaming.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

What will matter are: whether the people who invest in VC funds (LPs or Limited Partners) increase their activity and the performance of that actual fund. But you can do some focused Internet-based research before approaching the firms. You can ask around to startup lawyers and other entrepreneurs who know these things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

In picking your market you should focus on “deflationary economics” or lowering the price, functionality and margin of your business but targeting ever-increasing market sizes afforded by Internet scale. Venture capitalists raise money with a goal of returning 4x the amount they raise to their Limited Partners (LPs).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. There are significantly more Internet users and we’re no longer newbies b. And this is about to grow even faster.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. While that’s great when you showed up in your horse and buggy, the strategy-to-tactic-to implementation lag is painful at Internet speeds. 1) It’s their fiduciary responsibility. Not Real-time.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. While that’s great when you showed up in your horse and buggy, the strategy-to-tactic-to implementation lag is painful at Internet speeds. 1) It’s their fiduciary responsibility. Not Real-time.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

Just as entrepreneurs should aspire to raise capital from value-added, “smart money” investors, we, too, have focused on partnering with committed, long-term, institutional limited partners (LPs). We’ve been doing Internet stuff our whole careers, since the graphical web became a mass-market, commercial medium in the 1990s.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

From who we hire to the way we go to market, from how we engage with our limited partners to how we engage with founders, it’s all about being very focused on quality and consistency so as to affect strategies to generate meaningful carry for ourselves and our limited partners.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

This is true not only in a firm’s dealings with entrepreneurs but also with it’s limited partners and even within the firm among its partners. In the midst of the internet & telecom meltdown at the beginning of the 2000s, as a firm CRV realized there were insufficient opportunities to profitably invest $1.2B.

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David Cohen

MARCH 7, 2012

However, the fund is also designed to invest in any Internet software startup, anywhere. I feel the same when I consider the list of Limited Partners who have put their faith in me and have provided capital to this new fund.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. They’re also inflation-hedged. As a result, various analyses have shown annualized median returns for the industry of 18-37% , 27% , and 30%.

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Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

My partners and I wanted to peel back the curtain slightly for those of you who’ve been following our progress, and also acknowledge the help and support numerous folks have provided as we got this new VC firm off the ground. NextView’s inaugural fund is just over $21 million.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

NextView Ventures II is $40M, twice the size of our first fund, and we continue to be exclusively focused on seed-stage companies pursuing internet-enabled innovation. On #2, we have been fortunate to collaborate with a wide group of exceptional entrepreneurs, coinvestors, and limited partners.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. While that's great when you showed up in your horse and buggy, the strategy-to-tactic-to implementation lag is painful at Internet speeds. It's their fiduciary responsibility. Rockefeller.

Silicon Valley 117

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Public market holdings aren't dominated by internet companies with questionable business models the way they were in the late 90's. On March 20, 2000, Barron's wrote, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 trillion, which amounts to about 8% of the entire U.S.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? An item’s price is the price. But even Walmart (the epitome of brick and mortar) changes prices on some items daily, based upon sales and competitive intelligence.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Ben's Blog

APRIL 6, 2011

Access to the best companies is a key determinant of success in the venture business, and we’re fortunate to have access to the cream of the crop—companies that are leveraging the global Internet to build enormously valuable enduring franchises, out of the glare of the public markets. That in turn advantages the firm and our investors.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

It took a few years – and a few thousand failed consumer internet startups – but investors have gone back to the basics and now demand that companies they fund have income, not just a lot of Web users or app downloads. And what they saw happening with their outgoing classes and their propensity to raise funding.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) These limited partners add to the available capital in the state and provide funding for capital managers.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

Some big famous old funds share no data whatsoever and are extremely good at eradicating the history of their failures from the internet (leading me to suspect they aren’t doing quite so well as they would like the world to believe). The worst-performing funds fall out of the data altogether. This is a difficult question to study.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners).

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS).

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