Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners. portfolios.
Austin Startup
MARCH 15, 2021
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View from Seed
MARCH 12, 2015
And of course, many individual VCs blog or have social media presences, so you can get a sense of what a particular partner is interested in or what themes they’ve concentrated on. Speaking personally as an investor and partner at NextView, I’m more than willing to answer any questions that an entrepreneur might raise.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 19, 2015
We envy them all and want to emulate them but know that they are just people dealing with struggles of a different magnitude from the pressures of going public, the pressures of pricing competition, the pressures of over-reaching of journalists and regulators and the pressures of activist public shareholders with short-term expectations.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
While the M&A story has been widely reported perhaps far fewer people know that Limited Partners (LPs), the people who fund VC firms, have finally been able to restock their coffers in the past 4 years with significantly more money coming to them in distributions than capital calls to fund VC firm investments.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
While it’s true that they are investing LP money from a fund, it’s also true that the VCs are required to write large checks into their funds so every time they do a “capital call” (request money from an LP to fund you) they are also having to wire their own money into the deal. VCs most certainly do have skin in the game.
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Doing better than average requires what Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital called ‘different and better’ thinking in a recent memo to his investors. We work hard to have an edge at Forward Partners. Being an average investor in startups is therefore a waste of time.
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