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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. She has an amazing ethical compass with heart, compassion and drive. She’s empathetic and brings great humor to her work as well. I remember years ago trying to recruit Kara.

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2022 Predictions

Eric Friedman

5/ The rise of operator angels + micro VCs explodes in 2021. This is already happening, but there will be an explosion of rolling funds, operator angels, and micro investors who want to co-invest in friends, companies, and cohorts they are a part of. This sort of happened. 6/ I don’t get the vaccine for COVID19 (but want too!).

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What Do Your Customers Want to Buy?

View from Seed

At first glance, you’d think that all LPs pretty much want to buy the same thing. Every fund pitching an LP is pitching this as a baseline. And yet, LP’s get to “yes” in a few cases and get to “no” in most cases. This tends to be how endowments and large foundations operate, for example. Some LPs are buying unique access.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core.

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Fundraising advice for emerging GP’s

Version One Ventures

generalist focus, operator background). The first is the fund that you would ideally raise if LP capital was not a constraining factor. Given this, LPs today are focused on the depth of the investing experience of a new GP and any emerging manager should address this heads-on in their deck and LP communications.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives.

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Investors Updating Their Investors: Inside Homebrew’s First Annual LP Meeting

Hunter Walker

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. I’ve written before about our fundraising process and how it very much resembles that of a startup.

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