View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. However, many folks probably don’t think about exactly where those VC dollars that help fund startups actually come from.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. However, many folks probably don’t think about exactly where those VC dollars that help fund startups actually come from. So I wanted to dive a little deeper into what I call the startup capital supply chain.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

Venture capital and angel investments offer excellent options to startup businesses. Investment firms are staffed with analysts, partners, and others to ensure deals are soundly vetted. Venture capitalists act as limited partners, providing help to build successful companies in a market they have deemed has potential.

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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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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. 4) VCs Keep Quiet About Fading Away - As described above, VC firms usually die gradually and quietly rather than spectacularly and publicly as is sometimes the case for startups. 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., 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. It literally has an investment share in the fund just like any other limited partner. investors).

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VC Adventure

MAY 19, 2016

I really mean two things: The first is the application of entrepreneurial principles and startup techniques to solving critical, basic needs problems around the world (many of the companies I’ve worked with as a founding board member at the Unreasoanble Institute fall into this category, as one example).

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

You’re a big enough advertiser or business partner to have an account manager. The conversation evolved to one about how our industry (venture, startups, tech in general) could better message about the positive role we play in the economy. You went to grad school with the COO. I quipped that besides good phrasing we needed actions too.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

Early on in any startup is more often than not filled with the unknown. There’s a ton of questions, but one thing is for certain: it is thrilling to see your little startup start to come into its own. Venture capitalists are used only after a startup has begun to show a significant amount of revenue.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Startup outcomes tend to be very binary. Funders Club ( which I''ve written about previously ) recently launched a referral program where angels can receive 10% of the carried interest in a deal they refer that ultimately gets investment from an FC fund.

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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. more on this later) Much like running a product-startup, you’re your own boss, so you sometimes end up working really hard and at all hours depending on where you are in your fund life cycle. 4) You should love fundraising.

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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. more on this later) Much like running a product-startup, you’re your own boss, so you sometimes end up working really hard and at all hours depending on where you are in your fund life cycle. 4) You should love fundraising.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Group is worth noting for: Investing their own private money, Reid Dennis would found Institutional Venture Partners in 1974 First group specifically investing in the valley’s electronics industry SBIC Act of 1958 During the cold war the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union in 1957 both traumatized and galvanized the United States.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Crowd investing platforms allow anyone to be an investor even if they’ve never even interacted with the team—so you could have made two dozen investments and still have very little firsthand knowledge of what life is like at a startup or what early stage founders go through. With new technology should come new terminology.

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