Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Please help me welcome Kara into her role as Co-Managing Partner.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Partners leave the industry. Here’s my take: 1.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 7, 2014
We were talking about raising money from LPs. He was lamenting how much he hated LP meetings and how little he wanted to interact with LPs going forward. As an insider I can tell you that a large portion of VCs don’t like interacting with LPs – they view it as a “necessary evil” of the business.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
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.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
Not just the $20 million round at Invoca, the $70 million I helped us raise at Maker Studios , but I was intimately involved with the earliest funding round at DataSift and every subsequent round which has recently announced $42 million led by Insight Venture Partners and $70 million in total. The monkey on my back.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
Instant growth = huge valuation from follow-on investors = big VC mark-up on our quarterly reports = LP interest. Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns. Grow or die. ” How’d that turn out in the late 90′s?
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