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Emerging Manager Mode: The VC’s version of “Do things that don’t scale”

VC Cafe

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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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

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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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

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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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

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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Why VCs Explaining “It Was Only 4% Of Our Fund” Is Misleading Minimization When a High Flying Startup Implodes.

Hunter Walker

When you pick your investment in a vertical you mostly have to steer clear of direct and adjacent competitors, especially if you were a lead check and/or a Board member. This is less of a problem when the entire vertical falls apart (think of the last generation of scooter startups). Opportunity Cost of Non-Investment in Competitors.

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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). I had only a few connections in India before this trip.

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Announcing Version One Fund III

Version One Ventures

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. 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.