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How to play an active role in the success of your founders beyond the cap table.
Sham Sandhu, a leadership consultant and venture investor has worked with Kauffman Fellows for over five years, helping accelerate the success of Fellows through formal and informal mentorship. We...
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6 Common Pitfalls VCs Make With LPs: Part 3 of VC/LP Relations
Check out part 1 for insight into how LPs think about investing and part 2 of this series for tactical advice on how VCs can execute on making it clearer for them.
In this last part of Intimacy and transparency: VC/LP relations with Chris Douvos,...
Communication Strategies with Existing LPs: Part 2 of VC/LP Relations
Check out part 1 of this series for advice on how to help an LP gain a clearer understanding of your decision-making process.
In this second part of Intimacy and transparency: VC/LP relations with Chris Douvos, we dive deep into the actual output LPs want to see from their GPs. Meaning quarterly...
Intimacy and Transparency: 3 part series on VC/LP relations
In the opening chapter of Adam Grant’s “Give and Take”, Grant reminds us about the opaque nature of the venture business just 2 decades ago at the turn of millennia. Since then, we’ve seen an explosion of literature developed with the strict purpose...
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Designing Culture: A Kauffman Fellows Perspective
Phil Wickham, Charter Class
In the beloved children's fable, Jack and the Beanstalk, a very poor boy trades a cow for some magic beans. When watered, the beans sprout and their giant stalk rises to the clouds. The boy climbs up and obtains a goose...
How to boost your businesses’ revenue during COVID-19
Running a business is hard. Growing it during a recession is harder. While the speed and scale of COVID-19’s impact on commerce is unprecedented and is forcing companies to make critical decisions with incomplete or inaccurate information, we...
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The Case for Camels: Part 2
Why backing innovators that seek balanced growth, not just growth-at-all cost, is good business and good investing:
The Silicon Valley model for venture capital is built around finding and funding the next unicorn – Silicon Valley’s term for...
Pitfalls LPs Need to Avoid When Co-Investing Directly in Startups
At Village Global, an early stage venture firm where I am a partner, we have the privilege of working with several of the largest family offices in the world, along with university endowments and other institutions. As LPs, they expect to generate a...
Family Office Venture Capital Outlook 2020
At the start of 2020, Kauffman Fellows and First Republic Bank surveyed family offices (“FO”) to better understand their current investment theses and outlooks. We ran the survey again to explore how COVID-19 has changed family office outlook.
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How LPs Can Generate Alpha in 2020
Unique events are transforming venture capital today. As an LP, you can either go on the defense or offense.
Raising a venture capital fund in any climate can be difficult — particularly for new partners. And 2020 seems to be an even bigger...
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