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

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

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Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

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

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

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. But in the LP world there is an obsession with “top quartile” benchmarking in the near term, which drives skewed incentives for newer VCs to show quick returns. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

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?

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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.

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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.

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Management Portfolio LP Social Media 120

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.

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Venture Capital Seed Stage Entrepreneur LP 150

conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Examples of Awesome Explainer Videos: Step 8 – The Importance of Social Proof, Authority & Testimonials. 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. 5 Dimensions of Rockstar B2B explainer videos.

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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.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. While this is exactly what on line clothing retailers Asos and Threadless have done.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I believe that TV media and social media have broken business models that lead to the propagation of biased and misleading information in self-reinforcing echo chambers. If you haven’t already please watch The Social Dilemma, also available on Netflix. This brings the 2020 K9 LP meeting to a close.

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United States LP Founder Social Media 159