This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Either way, VC funds aren't really built around creating much of an experience for their Limited Partners. Rather than see LP interactions as a chore or a burden, new fund managers should see this as an opportunity to extend the community around their fund. Partnership investing is boring. You give someone your money and, once a quarter, they give you a report that says what they did with your money.

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Recent Buzzes - VC Experts, Inc.

JULY 14, 2011

By Igor Sill, Managing Director of Geneva Venture Management LLC. Essentially, FoFs can offer an investor access to the very best performing Venture Capital fund Managers not otherwise accessible directly. Sill, Managing Director, igor@genevavc.com.

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Limited Partner Silicon Valley IRR Due Diligence 18

Recent Buzzes - VC Experts, Inc.

JULY 13, 2011

By Igor Sill, Managing Director of Geneva Venture Management LLC. Billion represents a significant liquidity window for Venture Capitalists and their Limited Partner investors. Portfolio managers should fear failure, not illiquidity.

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Private Equity LP Silicon Valley Redemption 8

StartupCFO

JUNE 15, 2015

Cambridge Associates , an advisor to the Limited Partners that invest in venture capital firms, says that only about 20 firms – or 3% of all firms – generate 95% of the industry’s returns. . The post Managing Investor Pedigree appeared first on StartupCFO : Mark MacLeod. It’s a known fact that not all venture firms are created equal.

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Syndicate Syndication Management Limited Partner 23

Venture Hacks

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to George Zachary , a partner at Charles River Ventures , for sponsoring Venture Hacks this week. So you know what questions to ask your potential investors about their investors (their limited partners ). Venture capital firms have limited partners.

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Venture Capital Seed Stage Portfolio Angel Investor 4

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2015

” Each of our funds is $225 million, we have four partners and no other investment staff, and we work out of the same office we’ve worked out of since we started in 2007. Until we created this fund, we limited the amount that we could invest in a company to $15 million. With Select, we are no longer limited to investing $15 million per company. Management culture deeply held beliefs fg angles foundry group select matt blumberg return path values

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Syndicate Syndication Limited Partner Finance 66

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). BTW, Angel investors do not have limited partners, and often invest for reasons other than just for financial gain (e.g.,

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Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Acquisition 145

David Cohen

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Katie was the Managing Director at Techstars for our Boston program from 2010 to 2014. We became a Limited Partner in Project 11 when it launched and Katie continues to mentor at Techstars regularly. Everyone who knows Katie Rae at Techstars is thrilled that she’s taken a lead role with The Engine at MIT, a new venture fund and incubator space there.

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Boston Engineer Limited Partner Incubator 23

Gust

MAY 10, 2014

If you mean someone investing mostly other people’s money through a seed fund, they are venture capitalists, and their days are spent like other VCs, meeting with prospective investments, mentoring portfolio companies, raising money from limited partners, negotiating deals, and so forth. There is no such thing as a full-time angel investor (or if there is, I’ve never met one.).

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Angel Investor Accredited Investor Limited Partner Metrics 59

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

I’m at the Super Investor conference in Amsterdam, which is the main event each year when private equity and venture capital fund managers and their investors (Limited Partners out LPs) get together.

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Private Equity Limited Partner Differentiation Partner 34

A VC : Venture Capital and Technology

OCTOBER 23, 2011

They taught me a lot about finding and researching opportunities, structuring deals, managing a fund, and working with limited partners.  So it is the entrepreneurs I worked with in the first five years I was a partner, people like Isaak, Ron Schreiber and Jordan Levy, Mark Pincus and Sunil Paul, and Seth Godin that I have to thank for teaching me how to do what I do. Isaak Karaev stopped by and left a comment in yesterday's thread.

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Jordan Limited Partner Entrepreneur Reputation 80

Gust

MAY 7, 2014

The general partners of a venture capital fund make money… …by raising the bulk of the capital that the fund’s investable capital from “Limited Partners”, usually institutions such as university endowments, insurance companies and pension funds. In addition, every year, the managers of the fund (the GPs), are entitled to pay themselves 2-3% of the total amount of the fund to pay their expenses and salaries. (In

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Venture Capital Limited Partner Carried Interest Salary 20

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans.

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LP Silicon Valley United States Aggregator 76

A VC : Venture Capital and Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The entrepreneur and her management team generally makes that call and the board is asked to ratify it. But I am fairly sure that my partners and I and our limited partners will be happy to let this fund play itself out over a longer period of time. I met with a group of very experienced and sophisticated investors yesterday who make up the investment committee of a large charitable foundation that is an investor in USV.

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Portfolio Limited Partner IPO Valuation 88

Gust

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, they have a limited amount of money entrusted to them by limited partners, and they invest in a very, very few companies each year. Now, with that as background, it will typically take one to three months to negotiate and diligence a venture investment, if the company manages to get one at all. The question is based on a misunderstanding of how venture capital investment works. First of all, VC funds do not invest in ideas.

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Limited Partner Venture Capital Operations Partner 25

The Equity Kicker

MAY 31, 2016

Cambridge Associates is a service provider to the Limited Partners that invest in venture capital funds that’s known for the quality of its research. That’s the Forward Partners way.

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Early Stage Dilution Distribution Later Stage 30

CasaSiegel

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With the support of some key Limited Partners (LPs), our second fund is already larger than our first, and we will thus have the ability to execute on the strategy of investing in breakthrough technologies that come from major research institutions and to deliver venture-level returns. 5) Keep Your Eye on the Prize – The partners at X/Seed will not generate wealth for our selves via our management fees. CasaSiegel.

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Fred Destin

JUNE 27, 2013

Founder transition is one of those tense topics that holds limited upside for the writer, especially when said individual is a venture capitalist. We always look for experienced management [as soon as a company starts to scale]". Can you manage salespeople ?

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Founder Private Equity Limited Partner Salary 27

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 written code, launched products, acquired users, managed P&Ls, and lost sleep over making payroll. We’ve been on founding teams and worked from entry level through executive management. We are consumed with generating great returns for our limited partners.

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Limited Partner Burn Rate Portfolio Bootstrapping 22

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 9, 2016

Against this backdrop the folks at Industry Ventures, a Limited Partner that invests in VC firms, spoke with 40 mutual fund and hedge fund managers to find out what they are thinking.

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Valuation Limited Partner IPO Marketing 34

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). Lee’s posts also appear regularly on View From Seed. Subscribe here for more.

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LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Portfolio 155

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 155

ithacaVC

DECEMBER 22, 2012

One final thought – what about the VC’s fiduciary duties to its own investors (called limited partners). It is reasonable to think that the limited partners would expect their money managers (i.e., I think many limited partners would answer “yes” Love to hear your thoughts on this. Board of Directors Dealing with VCs Management Startup Life

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Preferred Stock Limited Partner Seed Stage Angel Investor 15

A VC : Venture Capital and Technology

JUNE 27, 2013

It's the limited partners who get screwed by this stuff. And the firm offering $5mm for 20% will likely have a $500mm fund size (or more) and will be making $10mm or more per year in management fees. I am talking at the PreMoney conference today (via Skype) and I woke up thinking about the challenges facing the VC industry. I hope to talk a bit about this at the conference. Some investors are ownership focused.

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Valuation Dilution Limited Partner Venture Capital 97

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I am generally a fan for providing management updates periodically for all investors but in doing so you must assume that what you send out will get read by others and thus hold back on your most sensitive information. This investor decided to use the fact that they got into a company that appears to be doing well to their benefit to almost fraudulently persuade limited partner investors to give them money. We all know that funding markets have changed for startups.

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SEC Venture Capital Early Stage Limited Partner 109

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 21, 2016

You might work with the same group of investors, contractors, agents and management companies for decades. If you're a VC, you should do whatever you can to make your limited partners feel like investors. I met with a family office investor yesterday and we were talking about his family's interest in diversifying their investments into early stage companies.

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Due Diligence Limited Partner Early Stage Networking 23

A VC : Venture Capital and Technology

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Our shareholders are our limited partners. And managing that is the most important thing of all. VC is a service business like law firms and ad agencies. Our customers are the entrepreneurs we back. When we do a good job of helping our customers create value, our shareholders benefit. But, like law firms and ad agencies, it is hard to provide truly objective and unbiased advice when you have a conflict of interest.

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Portfolio Limited Partner Reputation Social Media 57

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. The limited partners may themselves run the gamut from individuals, family offices, venture capital funds to institutional LPs.

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Incubator Preferred Stock Seed Stage Accredited Investor 45

Agile VC

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As a VC investing not only personal capital, but on behalf of limited partners, one can’t take this strategy. My NextView partners & I have a fiduciary responsibility to invest and manage our LPs money… we cannot look them in the face and tell them “We lost a ton of dough on a bunch of companies, but man… we learned a bunch along the way.” I was recently talking with another member of LinkedIn’s founding team.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Syndicate Syndication 69

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. We’ve also become very adept at partnering with seed funds.

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Venture Capital LP Valuation Silicon Valley 123

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry.

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Valuation Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation Cap Table 152

Inc Startups

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Well, venture funds get the money they use to invest from so-called limited partners--pension funds, insurers, endowments, and other institutional investors. For the limited partners, venture capital is considered a risky asset class.

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Venture Capital Limited Partner Initial Public Offering Institutional Investors 16

Agile VC

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A little more inside baseball from the VC biz… why VC’s rarely make “crossover” investments, with capital from multiple funds the VC firm manages invested in a single startup (see note 1).

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LP Balance Sheet Differentiation Limited Partner 36

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In case you’re keeping score at home — that’s approximately the size of 65 US seed-stage funds managed by one company. It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them.

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Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Kuwait UAE 44

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Management has the wrong pedigree, is geographically undesirable, competes in the wrong industry, and/or has a business model that lacks "scalability credibility" with the venture community. Venture capital funds are usually 7 - 10 year partnerships whereby the general partners - the “VC” - manage the capital of the limited partners, usually institutions (endowments, pension funds, etc.).

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 27

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I founded and continue to run as the sole General Partner, has raised a second fund, totalling $15.1 There are some things I learned about running a first fund over and above finding great companies that I think are important for new managers to keep in mind: 1) Venture capital will be humbling.

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New York City Venture Capital New York Founder 32

Non-Linear Growth

AUGUST 25, 2011

In late July, my Partners and I at Meritage announced that our portfolio company Masergy Communications had agreed to be acquired by ABRY Partners. ABRY bought a fine, fine business here and will now have the opportunity to work with what I think is one of the most capable management teams in the communications segment. We’re proud of the Masergy team, of the company they built and of the outcome we were able to achieve for our limited partners.

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Limited Partner Partner Acquisition Networking 10

A VC : Venture Capital and Technology

JULY 9, 2011

38:15-39:15 Does that make that person impossible to manage? 43:45-45:30 Are limited partners stoked about the secondary market? A few weeks ago Jason Calacanis stopped by our new offices and recorded an episode of This Week In Startups. It was a fun chat, almost an hour long.

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Audio Private Equity Limited Partner Startup 47

Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog

APRIL 17, 2014

During the mid 2000s, Andreessen and business partner Ben Horowitz, collaborated and invested in 45 start-ups to the tune of $4 million, topping the list with companies such as Twitter. billion from its limited partners to invest in even more companies, we surely haven’t seen the last of him.

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Silicon Valley Illinois San Francisco Angel Investor 34

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2014

management fee. It''s only a little bit of a performance drag, though, because management fees act like a loan. You charge your limited partners this, but you have to pay it back before you start taking a cut of the profits. Over time, when I raise the second and third fund, those fees will ramp down in the out years, but I''ll still have two funds worth of management fees to run with. Two years ago I started a fund.

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Investment Bankers Term Sheet Limited Partner Salary 44