Venture capital used to be such an insular, under-the-radar industry that entrepreneur-investor Marc Andreessen has said that he’d never heard the term before arriving in the Bay Area in 1994. He’s hardly alone. It wasn’t until the mid- to late-1990s, during the dot.com boom, that the world became acquainted with what venture capitalists do. And […]
Horsley Bridge Partners
StrictlyVC: June 30, 2014
Hi, good morning, everyone! Hope you had a great weekend. ——- Top News in the A.M. Introducing the Blackphone, the first consumer-grade smartphone to be built explicitly for privacy. —– Starting a Venture Fund? Your Timing Could Be Better Last Friday, at a conference in San Francisco organized by the fund and incubator program 500 Startups, a […]
Starting a Venture Fund? Your Timing Could Be Better
Last Friday, at a conference in San Francisco organized by the fund and incubator program 500 Startups, a group of institutional investors took the stage to discuss their perspective on the venture industry. Much of what the limited partners had to say was fairly predictable. But the comments of one LP in particular — Fred […]