thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

”, almost exactly 2 years ago to this day at Bloomberg LP’s headquarters in NYC as part of Social Media Week. I gave a talk, titled “What in the World?”, You can view the full presentation here.

India 107

India North America Ukraine Silicon Valley 107

Haystack

JUNE 1, 2018

Let me be perfectly clear — I do not know anything about SV Angel’s inner workings, and in all of my own interactions with Kevin, Topher, Brian, and @pm (when he was there), SV Angel was extremely helpful and friendly as many people have attested to on social media. (I I have never met Ron but hope to one day.).

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LP Global Social Media Portfolio 116

SiliconHills

JUNE 4, 2019

FloSports, live digital sports media company, this week announced it has closed $47 million in new funding. led the round of funding, which also included participation from existing investors Causeway Media Partners, LP, Fertitta Capital, and DCM Ventures, as well as strategic investors World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

Venture Capital 59

Venture Capital LP Strategic Investors Media 59

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2014

So I’m always trying to stay current with the people in our industry that I care about and find new voices – via social media, via our founders, via friends – to engage. And I love talking about Homebrew’s values and investments. Hey, want to grab a coffee? 4) Fund Operations.

Software Review 102

Software Review Balance Sheet Cofounder Technical Review 102

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can. The goal of an LP is to get into the top decile. When it went to raise its fund 10 years ago the rumor was that many LPs were disappointed with recent returns and did not re-up. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. hours / day.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . For more on this, see An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Kuwait Burn Rate 150

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.” Marco Cesare Solinas , VC Analyst with Blue Future Partners , said, “ From the LP perspective, another disadvantage is the lack of track record given the early stage of the concept.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We gain insight into the management style of portfolio company management by assessing their social media activities and digital exhaust, e.g., I use Fullcontact as my “chief of staff” to brief me on the interests and backgrounds of the people I meet. 6) Negotiate deal. Accompany focuses on this use case.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. And that’s a true reflection of just how successful and prolific Greg has been in LA.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Early Stage LP Partner 150

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

On paper, only one is in positive return territory as a fund, but the SBIC leverage is a substantial negative factor for the LP investors in that particular fund. As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC.

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SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. “I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining [New Firm] as a Partner where I will continue to invest in great Founders across the industries I care about.”. “I

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. The Funding Problem.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Cindy Revol, Joe Beard and Anurag Jain from Perot Jain, LP We received a warm welcome from Trey Bowles when we first came to Dallas and there have been many others who have opened their arms to us since. They are also helping us fund a social media campaign to reach people who might not already be coming to The DEC or other coworking spaces.

Dallas 48

Dallas San Antonio Houston Texas 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. With the set of cards we had at the time we sold, but what I wouldn’t give to still be working with and going long these two. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

That’s the way it should be, because if you had to wait for many of the big media companies to innovate with their content, we’d still be in the media dark ages (in many ways, we still are). Big media companies don’t want innovation. Yet, you’re siding with big, protectionist media companies.

IP 131

IP New York LP Internet 131

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

He surmises that LPs aren’t buying the argument that large funds don’t perform. Beyond the fact that LP capital commitments don’t prove anything about returns, however, large funds are likely much more resilient to a few bad years than small funds are. But why would any LP ever drop out of such a fund?

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LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Panels : Value Creation – Driving LP returns through operational excellence. VC Cafe is proud to be a media partner. The conference provides attendees with a valuable opportunity to listen to and to engage with key private equity industry participants. 2011 Conference Details: Date: Friday, 11 Feb 2011.

Private Equity 79

Private Equity Equity LP Limited Partner 79

Babbling VC

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Just as in the past solar, ship and media funds received the necessary kick from this benefit, so too should venture funds. Even if you are good, you are already competing against rest-of-world funds and I hate to say it.other regions are simply more attractive for the LP''s (investors in the venture funds).

Germany 74

Germany LP Early Stage Incubator 74

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2011

The LP's that fund booms are, after all, pension, municipal, and sovereign wealth funds. As I've been saying in my talks for a while now, the real entrepreneurship - not the caricature from pop culture and mass media - is boring, tedious, and extremely difficult.

LP 168

LP Incubator New York Programming 168

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). If you’re a new GP, chose your LPs wisely (if you have the luxury to of course).

Venture Capital 48

Venture Capital Seed Stage LP Valuation 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. This doesn’t happen with every LP and it probably doesn’t kick in unless things get worse. It was a nerve racking morning. My favorite Tweet of the morning came from Hunter Walk.

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Stock Finance Marketing Valuation 150

thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

Talent and domain expertise in NYC’s large industries such as financial services and media, would free up. Media outlets, from Mashable to the Wall Street Journal, didn’t think it was an interesting story at the time and it went unpublished.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Ghana Venture Capital India 69

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

And if you don’t have a $100 million bankroll and the very right connections to become a Kleiner or Sequoia LP, you’re not joining their club. YOUR big problem – your friendly neighborhood stockbroker (if they exist anymore) isn’t getting you in on any of these deals anytime soon.

Private Equity 67

Private Equity Intellectual Property IPO Venture Capital 67

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. The first time I used the words “pre-seed” (yes, the initial use was in all lower-case, but then became upper-case over time) was on June 27, 2013, at the K9 Ventures LP Meeting. Where did the term Pre-Seed come from? Seed rounds were getting bigger.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Social media. Question: Thoughts on how to use social media to generate deal flow? Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A. Charter Oak Equity LP Fee at close Part of management fee Part of carry. Question: Where do the panelists want to improve their current sourcing? CareerAmp Branch Out. Wells, PE-Nexus LLC.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 3, 2021

We both have multiple personal and professional projects that we’re involved with, and we felt like were getting sucked into spending time on things that weren’t moving these efforts forward—everything from too many meetings, or just getting sucked into social media rabbit holes.

Management 120

Management Portfolio LP Social Media 120

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

VCs generally have had an easy time fostering relationships with large ad agencies and media companies given how much our businesses have intersected over the past 20 years. Our fund has more interest from potential LP investors than our fund needs. Money is the easy part. You also need marketing muscle.

Silicon Valley 390

Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. I once had an LP tell me that when Sequoia fund raises they place the first call and say “we’re closing in 6 weeks – you need to decide quickly if you want an allocation.” But of course that’s horse puckey.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Genuine VC

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I hypothesized that, “Perhaps a contrarian statement in this environment: but even though there’s been a dip in fund size due to broad economic factors and LP appetite, it wouldn’t surprise me if the truly top firms raise even larger funds over the coming decade.” Local brewers = geography matters.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Seed Stage Entrepreneur LP 150

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. Do you want someone already making $12–17/hour watching your kid to make less (so a LP can make their returns…)?

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Do This: Create a social media listening dashboard to track mentions of your brand across the social web. So its clear that how important LP’s are. How To Create An Explainer Video That Converts. 5 Dimensions of Rockstar B2B explainer videos. Feb 03, 2014 @ 07:42:06. Hello, By profession I am web designer. Great post Tommy.

Analytics 98

Analytics Software Review Conversion Video 98

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

When the Mets got to the World Series, they release a kettle corn flavored ice cream with blue and orange M&Ms and a contest on social media around naming the ice cream. I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

While we definitely understand that AOL is a large media company and acquisitive, we’re not really involved in those discussions. Corporate VCs tend to have their parent company investing in their fund whereas Independent VCs tend to have multiple LPs (like endowments, pension funds, etc) investing in their fund. Not really.

Early Stage 58

Early Stage LP Later Stage Balance Sheet 58

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 14, 2016

DC: 2U, Cvent, Opower, Optoro, Sonatype, Vox Media, WeddingWire. Public: Atlassian, Box, Castlight Health, FireEye, Fitbit, Horton Works, Lending Club, LinkedIn, New Relic, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Splunk, Square, Tableau, Tesla, Twitter, Workday, Yelp, Zendesk. ATL: Kabbage, MailChimp, Yik Yak. .

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LP Startup DC 20