Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He shepards you through a sales process and the family nets about $390 million after taxes. I would argue that returns might go up if VC fundraising was a lot more meritocratic and if the big Limited Partners got to see everyone who was fundraising at the same time. remember Woody Harrelson on Cheers?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. Day one to exi t: Huge congrats to FortressIQ on its sale to Automation Anywhere. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. Day one to follow on funding: Over $1.7B What’s in Enterprise 2022.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. Additionally, Feenix typically needs fewer financial covenants and can provide quicker turnaround for due diligence with the benefit of transparency they receive by tracking credit card sales activity.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). Why does vintage matter to you?

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. Taking in angel or venture money requires a setting of an entrepreneur’s expectations that may come as a shock at least at first.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Scott Kupor of A16Z responded with a comprehensive overview of valuation methodology in a post that while accurate feels more targeted at sophisticated Limited Partners (LPs) who invest in funds. Rolf Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z’s returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.”

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

2) You’re not a specialist—so a company at that stage would be hard pressed to hire you as a head of sales or marketing, for example, because there are plenty of people out there who already have that specific skill set with startup leadership experience behind it.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

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. Typically stable, high margins; repeatable sales model; clear path to profitability; and high growth potential.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. Yes, my family takes priority over my emails, Adam.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . Your materials should ideally meet the expectations of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, even if you’re not targeting institutions. Note that limited partners view formatting as a proxy for professionalism.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Some of the old-line venture firms have changed their strategy, but some are still locked into last decade’s model while the partners are living off of their management fees and go through cargo cult like rituals.

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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 are consumed with generating great returns for our limited partners. For better or worse, we are not those guys.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2011

This might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting. I’ve lately been attending meetings with our shareholders (called LPs or limited partners). . - A tale of two pitches (I eventually invested in the first company that pitched). We didn’t realize.&# If you can get away with it, go for it.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

Venture capitalists act as limited partners, providing help to build successful companies in a market they have deemed has potential. When a company is targeted for Series A investment, it usually has a track record of sales or steady customer interest already. Investor Involvement.

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A Crowded Space

MARCH 26, 2015

It happens in enterprise sales when big companies have lots of different pilot projects going on to see if anything pans out. And guess what — it happens to VCs all the time when we have to go out and pitch big LPs (limited partners). It happens in personal dating sites where a user might like 1,000 profiles.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An example: some of the potential limited partners with whom ffVC periodically talks. Market Research Sales' He argued three reasons why you should not ask for feedback in these situations: 1) You won’t get the truth, so it’s a waste of time. This is a topic on which reasonable people can disagree. What do you think?

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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. The catalyst will be when public and private price/sales ratios come back into line.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this capital, the company propels itself to $50 million+ in revenues, and to either a sale to a strategic acquirer or to an initial public offering. At the end of the period, all profits and proceeds are distributed to the various partners on a pre-determined split.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

The term sheets of good corporate investors reflect the venture capital industry standards and don’t require special treatment like first right of refusal in case of a sale or operating agreements with their parent company’s divisions. Are they good sales people? No one wants terms that negatively impact the outcome.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Moreover, because most financial buyers are set-up as funds (which have their own limited partner investors) that typically expire in 10 years, the return on their investment must happen relatively quickly. The best advice I can give founders in connection with any sale is that cash at closing is king.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. I sent an email to another about what I thought we should cover at his next board meeting and what was missing from the deck he sent. I called another about his fund raising (DUDE – you never called me back! ). I submitted a term sheet to a company yesterday.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

More tellingly was the sale of Mint.com to Intuit for $170+ million because it showed VCs that a well-executed investment can still garner a quick, solid results (the company was sold around 3 years after its foundation). VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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ithacaVC

MAY 10, 2011

First, VCs get capital commitments from limited partners (i.e., Second, the General Partner of VC1 is the entity that runs the fund (let’s call it GP1). So, in this respect, you can think of GP1 as a limited partner. It literally has an investment share in the fund just like any other limited partner.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2010

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. Taking in angel or venture money requires a setting of an entrepreneur’s expectations that may come as a shock at least at first.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

If no financing happened then this “note&# may not be converted and thus would be senior to the equity of the company in the case of a bankruptcy or asset sale. VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). It starts as a debt instrument (e.g.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

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

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? This narrowing follows the three golden rules of sales: qualify, qualify, qualify.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Companies that exit are valued at whatever the sale is. Investors in VC funds - referred to as Limited Partners (LPs) - look at a number of factors in deciding whether to invest in a VC firm, but the IRR of past funds is an important criteria. If it’s an all-cash deal, this is easy to understand and the value is what it is.

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

That’s one of the reasons I don’t believe that start-ups can outsource sales until they clearly have product-market fit, and even then I typically view it as a core competency that they must build in-house. So, it’s hard for an outsider to accurately represent the sales pitch. . Limited partner checklist for evaluating funds.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners. Sales jobs. Job Search.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Whilst there are numerous custom solutions for PE/VC funds, we found that most funds nonetheless rely on more generalist CRM and sales funnel solutions like SalesforceIQ , Streak and Pipedrive. For recruitment and sales, LinkedIn is the most commonly used resource. How do funds use tech to monitor and report investments?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2020

Try keep everything friendly when going bankrupt with partners, but don’t dissolve the partnership and leave the business in the hands of a single proprietor. Limited Partner. This category is going to cover limited liability companies and corporations, as well as limited partnerships. You know what happens then.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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