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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business. Typical business stage. Typical business model. Venture Debt.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999.

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. Reply steveblank , on July 2, 2009 at 12:22 pm Said: Aamir, The game business is different from the tech business in some obvious and non obvious ways. - Make game, market, sell, profit? We understood none of this.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 11) Exit .

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. Capital Appropriate : Companies whose capital needs over the life of the business make sense given the potential size of the opportunity/exit. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. Capital Appropriate : Companies whose capital needs over the life of the business make sense given the potential size of the opportunity/exit. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.