This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Moat, the biggest exit out of the bunch, was sourced when I met Mike Walrath at a tech event. He said they’d consider any “special situations” funds I was doing—at which point I realized that he had never even looked at the deck and had zero intentions of doing any real diligence. It was the first anyone had asked me about it.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The VC industry (both the GP part and the LP part) pays attention to the sector’s returns, but the broader tech ecosystem only occasionally tunes in. 2) No Synthetic Alternative – If an LP can’t “buy” VC as an index, could they replicate the returns of an index some other way?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

at exit due to dilution. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution. I can tell a story looking backwards why our LP base was carefully constructed. But over time, that fund may invest another $2M in later rounds.

IRR 156

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

at exit due to dilution. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution. I can tell a story looking backwards why our LP base was carefully constructed. But over time, that fund may invest another $2M in later rounds.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. The Funding Problem.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

While I don’t have portfolio level stats for them, their new endeavor Foundry Next (to invest in smaller funds and then follow-on into key investments) has built up an LP basket of 23 positions in a variety of new VC funds. people looking to move to Austin). I think it will take a few years to understand these numbers and the impact.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Larger funds tend to have industry-specialized sourcing, but less so at the smaller funds due to lack of scale Riverside shares deal-based compensation, so that the sourcing team works together and it’s not zero sum in terms of hoarding contacts. Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A. Question : How are you organized?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Because we will not be maintaining the integrity of the data after June 28th, we will be discounting the search and account features after that date. Since launching the site last year, we’ve had the privilege of helping more than 7,500 folks with their most important search. nobody wants to get half-way across the river.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out. Technology is bringing about a new form of poverty to those who don’t have equal access to it. The technology minimums are changing quickly. The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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