Sometimes GPs need a couple at-bats with LPs before funding is in the offing. Here’s a fantastic thread from Beezer Clarkson on what GPs should keep in mind when re-pitching LPs that have previously passed.

A clarion call for institutional investors to embrace emerging managers, from John Austin Saviano, the former CIO of the Berkeley endowment: “Fiduciary duty actually compels us to embrace innovation.”

Interested in being an LP? Maybe you dabbled in angel investing, and it’s not for you. But you still want exposure. Investing in a VC fund is a great idea! Where do you start? Yohei Nakajima provides his thoughts.

VC investor relations, in the words of Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures: “The VC’s ‘customer’ is the founder/CEO/portfolio company and our LPs investors are our ‘shareholders’. Frequency, regularity, and transparency are the key factors to focus on with investors.”

How do we create a wider path for emerging managers to break into VC? Sara Zulkosky of Recast Capital chats with Keith Cline on the VentureFizz podcast on this question and much, much more.