Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. So why now?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2021
We are all beneficiaries of the incredible leadership of, Gregg Johnson , a 10-year Saleforce.com exec, who stepped into a $20 million ARR business and has guided it to $100 million+ and with plans to run it to $500 million+ and becoming a public entity one day. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well.
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David Teten
MARCH 18, 2021
Data from OpenVC shows that VCs typically focus on 2 technology classes. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g., a16z’s Cultural Leadership Fund aims to “enable more young African-Americans to enter the technology industry.”.
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.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 15, 2020
He also is chairman and CEO of Post Harvest Technologies, Inc. and founder and CEO of PHT Opportunity Fund LP. Jim White , bestselling author of “ Opportunity Investing: How To Revitalize Urban And Rural Communities With Opportunity Funds “, is founder and president of JL White International. and Growers Ice Company, Inc.,
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. My best guess is that new LP funds will be set up in the future to service Micro VCs. This led to an explosion in startups.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 20, 2019
Since then, I’ve been a founder of a number of companies, a CTO of a public company that acquired my first company, an angel investor, a VC in two different firms that I helped start, and an LP in a bunch of VC firms. If you are familiar with the concept of servant leadership, the sentence above will resonate with you.
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