Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. Upfront’s Base As you probably know we are based in Santa Monica and as my partner Greg Bettinelli coined, we’re #LongLA. We’ll invest in about 15 new companies every year or just over 2 per partner.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Protecting one’s reputation is incredibly important for any investor, whether independent or corporate.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The angel then introduces the entrepreneur to his or her wealthy friends and business connections who, based on the good reputation of the referring angel, also invest. At the end of the period, all profits and proceeds are distributed to the various partners on a pre-determined split. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. Partners at smaller funds, by contrast, have to hustle before they can cover their mortgage.

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David Teten

AUGUST 18, 2017

In descending order of importance, they are: Reputation. Specifically, the content for the 7 layers are: Reputation. Jeff Bezos said, “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” And what content should go in which place? Email templates.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you? On #2, we have been fortunate to collaborate with a wide group of exceptional entrepreneurs, coinvestors, and limited partners. For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner]. We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. 2) Investors with very specific value-add.

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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. Because this is all VCs do and if we intend to work with all of our fellow VCs and entrepreneurs when the rain ends and the sun shines again our reputations matter greatly.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The General Partners (GPs) are the operating guys. The money that the GPs and other employees of the firm invest comes from Limited Partners (LPs) — typically the big university endowments, retirement funds, charitable organizations, family offices and high net-worth individuals. The money side is flexible.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Fortunately, virtually all of these local VCs want to coinvest with reputable US VCs. . Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Fortunately, virtually all of these local VCs want to coinvest with reputable US VCs. . Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS). They use the reputation of the other investors as a proxy for due diligence.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

When you''re out on the road pitching, and getting people to believe in you, you feel a deep sense of responsibility to your limited partners--and there isn''t a day when you don''t wonder why you didn''t just take some easy corporate job where no one would notice if you weren''t working productively. 9) Sometimes, it''s just luck.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 10, 2016

In fact, the main partner became increasingly difficult to reach, and a junior person started interacting with the company more and more. Reference calls to potential limited partners seemingly have no upside to founders. The last thing this entrepreneur needed was to make waves. There is a downside, however.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 16, 2010

This is definitely on the upswing and reflects the issues that funds are having with their limited partner investors. Regulatory paperwork is prepared and the investment is prepared for presentation to the limited partners for funding. The second scenario is the pulled term sheet. It’s the nuclear scenario.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

But when I’m looking to invest the dollars that my Limited Partners have entrusted my firm with I’m going with my view. This return won’t be enough for me to justify for me partners.” GRP Partners had also funded my first company. I’m happy for others to disagree. So what is the “entrepreneur thesis?”

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