Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. I finally called bullshit.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The New York Times says the new fund is a signal that Silicon Valley is being revived, but according to the Wall Street Journal , it was lower fees and carry that facilitated securing the capital: It helped that Battery proactively offered some investor-friendly terms.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

One memorable example of this was Xerox’s internal venture capital fund, Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit. As Steve would say, this is a big idea.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). I believe great entrepreneurs do (and should) seek capital from VCs they think will be great long-term, value added investment partners.

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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).

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

With new technology should come new terminology. A similar problem happens at venture firms—where no longer are you seeing clear cut terms like analyst, associate, and general partner. Now, everyone’s a partner, blurring the line around who can actually lead an investment and get a deal done.

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VC Adventure

MAY 19, 2010

My partner Jason has an impassioned post up about the carried interest debate currently taking place in Congress. I have many of the same concerns that Jason outlines in his blog post about the move to change the tax treatment on carried interest. Obviously this issue is important to me and to all VCs.

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