Emerging Managers | Firm and Fund Management | Firm and Fund Management
Fund Recycling Moves the Needle for Both LPs and GPs. Here’s How.
For as powerful of a mechanism as fund recycling can be, we believe it is an under discussed strategy in venture investing. It can transform a good fund into a great fund, and a great fund into an ev...
Emerging Managers | Fundraising | Fundraising
Virtual Annual Meetings are Here to Stay: Best Practices for Re-Imagining the AGM for our Remote World
Love them or hate them, virtual annual meetings (AGMs) are here to stay for now. Given this shift, and my observations from numerous virtual annual meetings I have attended in the last couple months, ...
Investment Strategy | Market Trends
Which investments generate the greatest value in venture: Consumer or Enterprise?
One of our favorite areas to explore is: as a venture investor, do your odds of making better returns improve if you only invest in either enterprise or consumer companies? Or do you need a mix of bot...
Emerging Managers | Fundraising | Fundraising | LP Perspectives | LP Perspectives
What Makes a Good Annual Meeting? An LP’s Point of View
Annual meetings are simple in concept but can be difficult to execute well. At Sapphire Partners, we are constantly asked what makes a good annual meeting, which makes sense given the typical GP atten...
Market Trends
Europe’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem – Looking to the Future by Understanding the Past
Beezer Clarkson and Colette Ballou will draw on their myriad of experience as investors and entrepreneurs, and discuss the up and down cycles in European technology landscape and where they think thin...
Emerging Managers | Fundraising | Fundraising
Raising A Fund? 9 Questions That Help Get You To GP/LP Fit
This post serves a part two of a two part series that samir kaji and I are co-authoring to help VC’s navigate through fundraising cycles and engender better and more relevant relationships with LP...
Benchmarking | Benchmarking | Emerging Managers | LP Perspectives | LP Perspectives
LP survey results: What LP’s are saying about emerging venture manager funds
This post serves a part one of a two part series that Beezer Clarkson at Sapphire Ventures and I are co-authoring to help VC’s (specifically emerging managers) navigate through fundraising cycles an...
Investment Strategy | Market Trends
Why Enterprise Funds May Return More Capital Than Consumer Funds
This is the first part in a series of writings on enterprise and consumer investments in venture capital (VC). Stay tuned for upcoming posts as we explore investment and exit trends related to this to...
Emerging Managers | Fundraising | Fundraising
Dear VCs, There’s Something You Need To Know About Raising Funds This Year
Times are changing. Startups and VCs are facing tougher times, layoffs, down rounds and eroding valuations. However, already a record amount of money has gone into U.S. venture funds this year. As an ...
Emerging Managers | Fundraising | Fundraising
How To Market A Fund And Pique An Investor’s Interest
The latest batch of questions from readers has them asking about marketing a fund, as well as the nitty-gritty of 506(c) offerings, which came about as a result of the JOBS Act signed in April 2012. R...
Firm and Fund Management | Investment Strategy
Various Factors That Affect Portfolio Returns In A Bull Market
Recently, Josh Kopelman publicly released First Round Capital’s quarterly LP letter, stating that portfolio returns in venture capital will be affected by two numbers: entry valuations and exit pric...
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