Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). The first is a staff constraint.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

Investment firms are staffed with analysts, partners, and others to ensure deals are soundly vetted. An article in Forbes explains that a venture capital firm makes its money through management fees (a percentage of the amount of capital that they have under management) and carried interest (a percentage of the profits of the business).

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ithacaVC

JANUARY 10, 2012

One of my students just asked me what a “Venture Partner” is in the context of a venture capital firm. I quickly typed in “venture partner” into the Wikipedia query box. So, then I typed “venture partner definition” into the Google search box. It carries cache. No results.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. So assessing fit is critical.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. Partners at smaller funds, by contrast, have to hustle before they can cover their mortgage.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management. So at a fund level (e.g.

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ithacaVC

MAY 10, 2011

First, VCs get capital commitments from limited partners (i.e., Capital is called when needed for investment, fund expenses or management fee. Second, the General Partner of VC1 is the entity that runs the fund (let’s call it GP1). So, in this respect, you can think of GP1 as a limited partner. investors).

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

I am not sure how many entrepreneurs understand the structure of venture capital funds but the bottom line is that while VCs manage funds, we ultimately report to our investors or Limited Partners (LPs). It is not our money, and we have a fiduciary responsibility to manage it properly and generate the returns our LPs expect of us.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

You’re a big enough advertiser or business partner to have an account manager. When she asked what would I recommend my response wasn’t about getting rid of carried interest or breaking up the big companies but about customer support. You went to grad school with the COO.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

I am not sure how many entrepreneurs understand the structure of venture capital funds but the bottom line is that while VCs manage funds, we ultimately report to our investors or Limited Partners (LPs). It is not our money, and we have a fiduciary responsibility to manage it properly and generate the returns our LPs expect of us.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The General Partners (GPs) are the operating guys. The money that the GPs and other employees of the firm invest comes from Limited Partners (LPs) — typically the big university endowments, retirement funds, charitable organizations, family offices and high net-worth individuals. of the size of the fund.

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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. In many cases, fund managers invest 1-5% of the fund size. If you have 2 managing partners, that’s $4m per person – but 10 years later.

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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. In many cases, fund managers invest 1-5% of the fund size. If you have 2 managing partners, that’s $4m per person – but 10 years later.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

Good cash flow management, boiled down to the simplest essence, means that key principles understand every dollar received and every spent and never delegate this key process out. VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc.

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