Andrew Payne

MARCH 25, 2009

The venture capital business is in the middle of a shakeout. For too long, venture’s been over-funded and over-staffed with homogeneity: the same kinds of partners, operating with the same fund model, looking at the same investments, in the same markets. LPs missing capital calls (a very big deal).

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Pascal's View

MARCH 19, 2010

This is the last in our series of 10 frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: I’ve read that some GPs are suing LPs for not making capital calls. Why throw more money their way?

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 10, 2012

. - If one considers NEA a Silicon Valley firm (I know they are headquartered in Baltimore but they have a very large and successful west coast practice), the top five funds raised are in San Francisco and represented 55% of the capital raised. Michael Greeley is a managing director with Flybridge Capital Partners.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

It’s been about a year since I started working on Hustle Fund with my business partner Eric Bahn. 3c) You also will make General Partner contributions to your fund. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call. Typically, capital calls are done over the course of 3 years.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

It’s been about a year since I started working on Hustle Fund with my business partner Eric Bahn. 3c) You also will make General Partner contributions to your fund. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call. Typically, capital calls are done over the course of 3 years.

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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.

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds. “dry powder&# ) and $1.5

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. We drew $1.5

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Most often, one partner remained active as another partner drifted away from the business, no longer carrying the weight anticipated at start-up. The assumption at start-up is that all partners will carry their assigned weight for the foreseeable future, as percentages of ownership are divided accordingly.

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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.

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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.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 9, 2008

PrivateEquityOnline: Bankrupt WaMu Parent Defaults on Capital Call. Well, VC firms have not been able to get exits; money that was invested in venture capital is locked up in illiquid private investments in portfolio companies and cannot be returned to Limited Partners. BusinessWeek: College Endowments Deserting Venture.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Your Business Partner Closer,&# was a reformatted version of a blog post titled “Keep Your Startup Co-Founder Closer&# which appeared in Ryan Roberts PC’s blog for startups and entrepreneurs, The Startup [.] He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 16, 2010

This is definitely on the upswing and reflects the issues that funds are having with their limited partner investors. Regulatory paperwork is prepared and the investment is prepared for presentation to the limited partners for funding. The second scenario is the pulled term sheet. It’s the nuclear scenario.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 9, 2008

My partner, David Aronoff, wrote a good blog outlining what CEOs should be doing to ensure survival. GigaOm reports that Sequoia Capital called an all-hands, emergency meeting with its portfolio CEOs to walk through a recommended plan of action.

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