Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. Angel investments in mobile and web apps today are approaching the “throw it against the wall and see if it sticks” strategy. From a VC’s point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 17, 2010

Answer: The options here are limited, and they are (1) the LP can try to sell their interest, including the obligation to fund future capital calls, to a fund that acquires secondary interests. This is the eighth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. What are their rights?

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Pascal's View

MARCH 15, 2010

This is the sixth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: You had some thoughts about contract terms. Do you think the trend is shifting in favor of institutional LPs to receive better terms?

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Clawback Limited Partner Government LP 28

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Coats says their underlying thinking was sophisticated enough to attract more than 30 venture capitalists to invest personally as limited partners in Correlation Ventures’ first fund, along with college endowments, pensions, funds of funds, and other conventional investors. Touch Press, the iPad, and the New Golden Age of Multimedia.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

There must be many ways to maximize price (and therefore margin) if you can understand something about a web visitor. These are some things to think about when pricing products dynamically, but I’m sure Zilliant’s products are not just focused on realtime web. What time of day are they shopping?

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Pascal's View

MARCH 19, 2010

This is the last in our series of 10 frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: I’ve read that some GPs are suing LPs for not making capital calls.

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Limited Partner Government LP Venture Capital 28

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

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The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

That means the VC’s own investors (the “Limited Partners” or LPs) pay them $3 million a year to manage a $150 million fund, an expense that is debited from any profit sharing down the road on the investments. That $150 million doesn’t just sit in your bank account on Day 1 of your venture fund.

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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. Angel investments in mobile and web apps today are approaching the "throw it against the wall and see if it sticks" strategy. From a VCs point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

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Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

First off, if nothing else, the sheer number of broadband subscribers and smartphone users has created a market that is several times greater than the one that was supposed to consume all these web services in the late 90's--and that's just in the US.

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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. A related trend Kedrosky sees is the return of discipline.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains. Look at Google, Firefox and new scripting services like Greasemonkey and Yubnub which are increasingly offering users more and more functionality through a web-based interface.

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.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 60

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Answer: Actually there is plenty of financial information available from private companies, but that does not mean that it is available to institutional investors as passive investors who are Limited Partners in venture capital or other private equity partnerships.

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Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

And, the more funds that are raised, the more fees VCs can collect, which are contractually guaranteed in limited partner agreements.Only time will tell which approach is best or optimal. A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. With that in mind, new funds are a great place to focus.

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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). It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. I now observes the fund raising process as a profession. Press the flesh.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Yet, I'm sure tech journalists will write about that company as a bellwether as to what's going on in the whole market--and unsophisticated limited partners and newly minted angels will lap it all up, reciting line and verse as to whether the market is hot or not. I doubt it.

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