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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. That role as sparring partner can be useful if for nothing else than to test your resolve. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Sometimes we fight.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. I remember a few years ago people (LPs mostly) used to ask me why I didn’t have any realized returns to show. 5 years ago. The monkey on my back.

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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. LPs See The Over-Valuations and Don’t Like It. All isn’t completely rosy in the LP views of the venture industry.

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Fitzsimmons, High Road Capital Partners. Prestegaard, High Road Capital Partners. Glickman, Resilience Capital Partners LLC Luke Johnson, Platinum Equity LLC Robert B. Fitzsimmons, High Road Capital Partners. Tye, Edgeview Partners LLC Harold J. Social media.

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Why So Many Small Emerging Managers Don’t Use Placement Agents

David Teten

In 2018, the 8,000 active private equity funds globally had a 15 to 16 percent annual performance differential between top and bottom quartile funds. Thus, many LPs have outsourced their investment management processes to professional investment consultants (ICs). Limited partner checklist for evaluating funds.

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Why VC’s Don’t “Crossover” Invest

Agile VC

If Acme Ventures III, LP invests in Startup X then typically Acme Ventures IV, LP would not. 1) LP Bases Change Over Time – Most healthy VC firms tend to have stable relationships with the limited partners investing with them. Or public policy changes may force GPs or LPs to end longstanding relationships.

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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part V, featuring Ethan Kurzweil, Lily Lyman, Ashley Mayer, and Leshika Samarasinghe.

Hunter Walker

Ethan Kurzweil /early stage investor, new firm TBA] [hunter: When Ethan first joined his previous firm Bessemer Partners, he told me it would just be a few year stint before a startup. Finding the approach that works for the partners—and can sustain you through all the ups and downs—is what matters. Your portfolio is your brand.