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Bridging the gap between tech startups and the Fortune 500

David Teten

Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. Some corporations emulate this model by creating their own wholly-owned VC entities, typically with one LP: the corporate balance sheet. 1) Corporate Venture Capital. 4) Accelerators.

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Content From LPs

Feld Thoughts

My partner Lindel Eakman wrote a post a few days ago about his transition from Austin to Boulder and a really helpful one about how to work with him titled A Human User Interface….with This prompted me to poke around for other content from the limited partner (LP) side of the LP/VC/entrepreneurship universe.

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Perot Jain steps up to support Dallas entrepreneurs

Austin Startup

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. Perot Jain, LP is an early stage venture capital firm founded by Ross Perot Jr. Ross Perot, Jr., About Perot Jain, L.P.

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#GivingThanks: Jerry Colonna and Naropa University

Feld Thoughts

When I make a list of non-family members and non-partners who I would want to be stranded on a desert island with, Jerry is at the top of the list. Jerry became partners with Fred Wilson and they started Flatiron Partners. Today’s #GivingThanks post is for my dear friend Jerry Colonna. We made more investments together.

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VC Governance FAQ: (8) How can a limited partner exit from a VC fund?

Pascal's View

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: What happens if an LP wants to exit a VC fund? What are their rights?

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Why I’m excited about First Round’s investment in Salescrunch

This is going to be BIG.

First of all, their CrunchConnect product will make your pitches a lot easier, by not forcing your clients to download plugins to do over the web presentations. I’m even more excited to be working with Chris Fralic, who is the partner on point here for First Round and Theresia Ranzetta from Accel, who joined us in this round.

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Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

Austin Startup

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? So why raise money?