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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

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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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

Must build and promote your reputation / expertise. Flow is a function of reputation and share of mind in target market. Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A. Casts a wider, more efficient net than existing channels with a more robust database and a more detailed search function. Wells, PE-Nexus LLC.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

www.quora.com

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? They are not even investing with their own money, but with their LP's money.

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The Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

A couple of years into it, the friendly neighborhood search giant, Big Kahuna, shows up and decides to acquire Little Fish for $100M. Now that’s nothing to snicker over, especially considering that well-reputed and established firms could often have multiple overlapping funds. The LP perspective.

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