Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. But in the LP world there is an obsession with “top quartile” benchmarking in the near term, which drives skewed incentives for newer VCs to show quick returns.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Riverside defines proprietary as any sale less than ~3 buyers involved Kinderhook looks for the “broken” auctions that didn’t get the right attention of the PE community. Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A. Charter Oak Equity LP Fee at close Part of management fee Part of carry.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Example: Emerging managers handle everything from deal sourcing to LP communications to social media in-house. They look at founders as their customers, and the best emerging managers will roll up their sleeves and do candidate reviews, pitch deck assistance and bespoke BD for startups, and personalised updates for LPs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But for now … Every year we run a big VC, LP & Tech Summit in Los Angeles (this year downtown) to showcase the best of our community and invite others from around the country. And what’s up with this crazy new blog design? Well … more on that next week. I will tell more.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

He understands our issues as a community and vows to help keep LA Tech on the map. To attract LP money to local VCs. And let’s elect a mayor who knows that building a vibrant tech community is the key to LA’s continued growth and innovation. LA needs Garcetti. He would be the first tech mayor of our city.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse. I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. Community : Building out Homebrew WW HQ in SF which at any time houses a couple of portfolio companies and founders pre-funding. We make available coworking space for free.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. In the early morning, a show of hands revealed about a 20% LP audience and 80% fund manager group.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2020

by Dr. Jim White , founder and president of JL White International and bestselling author of “ Opportunity Investing: How To Revitalize Urban And Rural Communities With Opportunity Funds “ COVID-19 has disrupted the business world, and the “normal” of a few months ago may never return. and Growers Ice Company, Inc.,

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. They helped us establish 2 GP entities, 2 LP entities, and 1 Cayman entity (for international investors) in ~2 months. We held our first close on August 1, 2017.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Lower level of community familiarity. Zack Mueller, Attorney, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC , points that almost “no one, from LPs to entrepreneurs to attorneys, has much experience with these instruments. Of the Inc.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. In the early morning, a show of hands revealed about a 20% LP audience and 80% fund manager group.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2023

Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. I had many 1:1 conversations, emails, and messages with our portfolio company CEOs, along with several open Zoom lines where people could ask questions and just commiserate and feel part of a shared community.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Their stories of innovation and dedication remind us of the impact thoughtful leadership can have on our organizations and communities. These trailblazers have set new standards in governance and leadership, inspiring all of us to strive for excellence.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. I had lunch with an LP. I like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. I met for coffee with one of my favorite “startup advisors” in LA. They become my eyes and ears. And I theirs.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Our strategy for accomplishing this is to focus on new firms led primarily by underrepresented VCs, back them meaningfully, and support them via a community of peers, advisors, and institutional LPs. When 10 of us founded Screendoor in 2021 this was the plan.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

That's what led me to open up an office in Brooklyn--where half of the people in the New York City startup community call home. Another GA community member introduced me to the team at KEC holdings. It's incredibly rewarding to help people find positions at exciting high growth companies with great founders at the helm.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 21, 2025

Everyone largely underwriting to the same outcome goals. Growth investors were the ones who added structure to deals and best companies typically just raised a single growth round ahead of IPO.

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Venture Capital Cap Table San Francisco Early Stage 72

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

This comes on the heals of Upfront managing director Mark Suster’s great post titled Embracing Your Community as a Strategy which I encourage you to read as it is magnificent. In the last five years, there has been an explosion of startup activity in LA that continues to be exciting as the startup community grows and evolves.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Having a strong POV also helps with finding… LP/GP fit. Despite talk of industry consolidation in venture (which wouldn’t be a good thing for founders or the ecosystem), there seems to be an increasing appetite for smaller funds from institutional LPs, in recognition of the fact that they outperform.

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Venture Capital LP Cap Table Portfolio 106

Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2015

Last week Homebrew held its second annual LP meeting, coinciding with our second anniversary as a fund. Bringing New LPs Up to Speed: Since we raised our second fund earlier this year, you can think of this as our first board meeting with our new investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

It’s been a pretty popular move for New York area politicians to jump on the bandwagon of the emergence of New York tech growth—a phenomenon they largely had nothing to do with—and say they’re supportive of the community. It’s an embarrassment, frankly, to our tech community.

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IP New York LP Internet 138

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

As competitive as venture capital often seems, we are incredibly humbled by the amount of support and love we have gotten over the years from our community. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs. Many of you have been investors since the first fund and we are thankful for all the continued support and confidence.

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Silicon Valley North America San Francisco LP 126

firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Everyday online and offline, CEOs, CTOs, sales leaders, marketers and engineers connect with each other inside of our Community at Firs. Kris Gale, VP Engineering at Yammer, joined us recently for First Round CTO Summit and blew everyone away with his talk on "why the tra. [1:1] Read These Next. Platform Team. First Round Capital. Categories.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2018

My partners and I just announced that our long-time friend and LP – Jamey Sperans – has joined Foundry Group. We’ve been working with Jamey since the beginning of Foundry Group in 2007 (he was one of our first LPs via Morgan Stanley AIP) and have become extremely close friends.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 31, 2024

The first is the fund that you would ideally raise if LP capital was not a constraining factor. Given this, LPs today are focused on the depth of the investing experience of a new GP and any emerging manager should address this heads-on in their deck and LP communications. Things are much different now.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2020

Hoffman Institute is a one-week intensive on-site program, leveraging therapy, meditation, experiential exercises and peer-to-peer community, designed to break the most formative negative patterns from our childhood. As an LP in Freestyle, I’m extremely excited to see their leadership in this area.

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Leadership LP Programming Portfolio 93

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. There have been many times at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures where I’m leading a deal and after our co-invest call, an LP wants to put in just $10k. Access to other investors.

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Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Deal Flow 103

Hunter Walker

APRIL 28, 2017

For VCs, annual LP meetings are combination Board Meeting + Community Event. Several founders gave 10-12 minute updates on their companies, and then, a dinner with our LPs, Homebrew founders and fund advisors. We spent an afternoon with our investors, providing updates on fund performance, market dynamics and future plans.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Rather than see LP interactions as a chore or a burden, new fund managers should see this as an opportunity to extend the community around their fund. That happens most when the LPs represent a diverse group of industries and perspectives who want to be helpful to portfolio companies and founders.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

While I don’t have portfolio level stats for them, their new endeavor Foundry Next (to invest in smaller funds and then follow-on into key investments) has built up an LP basket of 23 positions in a variety of new VC funds. Hopefully, we will continue to help develop and expand existing and new startup communities.

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ithacaVC

MAY 4, 2011

“Horse trading” is a bad phrase in the startup/VC community. Let’s say that the Series A liquidation preference (LP) is 1X and that the Series B LP is 1.5X. The Series C investor negotiates a term sheet that provides for the Series C to be senior to the A and B and also for the Series C to have a 1X LP.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

As a person who spends much time thinking about the venture capital & startup community and who has seen good times & bad times across many economic cycles the article is well written. Instant growth = huge valuation from follow-on investors = big VC mark-up on our quarterly reports = LP interest. Grow or die.

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