David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

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.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. 20% initial ownership.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Hunter Walker

APRIL 21, 2025

I entered venture capital with some beliefs – many of which still hold true (such as ‘your LPs are your business partners, not your customers’). That’s a 2025 milestone as Homebrew turns 12.5 years old, surpassing my combined working tenure across Second Life, Google and YouTube.

Venture Capital 95

Venture Capital Cap Table San Francisco Early Stage 95

Haystack

JUNE 1, 2018

Perhaps because of this success and the unique elbow grease they supply to their portfolio, it was shocking to many to see that one of the storied seed franchises would contract, become its own sole LP, and scale back its operations. Some established VC brands are rumored to be cutting back their LPs a bit to keep money in-house.

LP 116

LP Global Social Media Portfolio 116

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

At the same time, ICOs have emerged as a new way for projects to raise money globally in a frictionless way. Blockchain and ICOs are giving VCs new ways to run their own businesses – from changing agreements with limited partners to allow the fund to buy tokens and currencies directly to figuring out how to safely store token and currencies.

Venture Capital 164

Venture Capital LP Dilution Limited Partner 164

Babbling VC

JANUARY 7, 2011

Conversely you could blame the LP's (limited partners: the investors in venture funds) and say they are the one's not risking it enough. The Tier-1 funds continue getting the money from the LP's and before LP's give their money to other VC's, they'll increase the amount of money they invest in the Tier-1 funds. .

Finance 76

Finance LP Europe Valuation 76

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. Many VC firms expressed interest, nearly every one took a meeting and several called Mark and the team back for meetings.

Balance Sheet 150

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

Benchmark Capital and existing investors including Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners funded the round for future product development, likely for iPad related Flash content (more here ). Canaan Partners; Greylock Partners; Siemens Venture Capital GmbH; Warburg Pincus LLC;Wellington Partners Venture Capital GmbH.

Israel 68

Israel Venture Capital LLC LP 68

thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. Startups are not immune to globalization and can accelerate growth if thinking globally from launch.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Ghana Venture Capital India 69

Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Each partner has to bring something to the table and is preferably complimentary to weaknesses of his or her partners. International network: even if you are focused on one region, your network has to be global and extensive enough that you can be a channel for M&A. One of the partners has to be a techy.

LP 66

LP Salary Partner Portfolio 66

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

I’m in for $100,000 so you’ve got your first LP. Shortly after that conversation (either the same day or the following day) my partners at Foundry Group (Seth, Jason, and Ryan) all committed to invest in the fund. Mark: “We don’t really have enough money in the VC fund for us to be partners it in.”. Just do it.

LP 70

LP Seattle Angel Investor Partner 70

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. Summary: Cheap, mobile, social, global, always-on, one-click-purchase =. Why is this? The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more

Technical Review 398

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The panelists will debate the pros and cons of different expansion strategies, and I expect that there will be some twists and turns to the discussion given the radically different global financial market picture. THE PANEL: Sean Hill, Partner, Proskauer Rose, LLP – moderator. John Balen, General Partner, Canaan Partners.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital LP Later Stage Vertical 28

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds. Also, the $1.5

Later Stage 34

Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. GLOBAL seems here to stay unless something stupid Trump’s it. Global “WARMING” But “global” isn’t the only story, warning is at least half of the equation.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Kuwait Burn Rate 150

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns. So at a fund level (e.g.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. And if you look at what percentage of the global population lives within commuting distance of one of our offices, it's a tiny fraction of the world, far less than 1%. And there was all these things about the global financial system.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. We pitched everyone from Angels to partners at Andreessen Horowitz on Sand Hill Road. We got real close a couple of times to great investment partners. Thank you Ifundwomen supporters !)

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. The Boston Consulting Group and MassChallenge , a US-based global network of accelerators, partnered to study why “ women-owned startups are a better bet ”. Why is that?

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60