What Are the Best Practices for Accounting Acquired Portfolio Companies via Share Swaps in Your Track Record?
What are the best practices to account for portfolio companies that are acquired through share swaps in your track record?
What are the best practices to account for portfolio companies that are acquired through share swaps in your track record?
What if I put my entire $5M fund into an SPV and operate off of that?
If I'm targeting $10M fund 1 but could reasonably carry out my investment thesis with a $5M fund, does it make more sense to state I'm raising a $5M fund and try to oversubscribe to ~$10M giving myself some room for failure?
What are your thoughts on the strategy of extreme diversification with investments?
If one uses the Partner fees for some or all of the GP contribution is it taxed first?
How do funds typically implement sharing dead-by-deal carry on deals in their portfolio with people that introduced them?
Our LPA allows the partnership to borrow money — if our bank were to give us a loan equivalent to the management fees would we be able to use it to invest 100% of the committed capital?
Is it normal to have different management fee for active investments period and divestment periods? i.e 2% vs 1%
Moving this question here: what agreement to use for fund advisors? To further clarify these are people that have volunteered and are happy to help with no expectation of compensation. From what I understood last night the LPs will have the expectation that the advisors will be incentivized under VP agreements…so we should be using the VP agreement. Also what is the target number of fund advisors for a <$10MM fund?
Hi everyone. About markups... what's the best practice for non-priced rounds? For example I invest using a SAFE with a $5M Cap and a few weeks later another investor comes in at a $10M Cap. Is it 'fair' to say there was a markup? Or is it necessary to wait until the priced round?
I’ve been speaking to a few potential LPs and a question came up that I was hoping someone could answer. How much of the “first close investors” capital can be deployed before the second close? For example if I had a $10M fund target with a first close of $2M am I able to call and deploy that full $2M before raising the remaining $8M? And even if I’m legally able to do so under the terms of a LPA would this be considered off-market? Thanks in advance.
Should I leverage one of mine VP success in their startups or helping others? For example a co-founder's $40 MM series B
What is the typical dollars ticket size VCLab considers for seed and series A? Thanks
Any advice on setting a minimum ticket size one a 15M Fund?
is it at all possible / reasonable to take part of LP commitment in form of shares of a company that fits the fund thesis?
Regarding optimal portfolio size do you have any references you can share? For example for a EUR 5 million fund run by a solo GP what would be your suggestion for the number of companies invested? 15-20? 20-25? 25-30? I am thinking of 15-20 investments to have the 'attention span' required to help them grow max 20-25 but would like your input
What are the mechanics for 'per deal carry' for Venture Partners? Specifically if the whole fund has not generated sufficient returns to pay a carry does the GP pay for the per deal carry if an exit occurs?
One question getting asked as a solo GP is how to tackle the key-person clause. What's the best way to tackle this? Strong IC?
Is there a maximum limit on the number of Venture Partners a fund should have? I am thinking of pulling in different sub-sector experts to work with portfolio companies.