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Eakman: Male posturing inside VC firms undermines good decision-making
“There's often a bunch of male posturing nonsense in these venture capital firms. If you can get rid of all that noise, you end up with a way better chance of making good decisions.”
Eakman: Institutional LPs Do Not Make Great Direct Investors
“Traditional institutional LPs, I don't think they make great direct investors. And in general, they aren't able to attract the most talented direct investors to their platform.”
Eakman: Foundry Group Will Not Attempt Generational Succession
“Foundries on the record is saying that, you know, we're not going to transfer this through a generational transition.”
Eakman: Institutional LP Turnover and Vacillation Elevate Fund-of-Funds Prominence
“I will say a challenge for venture writ large and a challenge for LPs is that institutional LPs are changing. They're all struggling with staff turnover. Many have vacillated in their commitment to venture. Because of that, I think you've seen venture funder f…”
Eakman: Separate Follow-On Funds Do Not Create Negative Market Signals
“And I, we just haven't seen it, but I don't think a separate fund has changed any market perceptions.”
UTIMCO Secured a 20% LP Position in Union Square Ventures' Early Fund
“I think we had the opportunity to get 20% ownership, and that's what we wanted, just like all the VCs do in companies. At UTEMCO, and frankly, today, we like being an important part of the capital base.”
Emerging GPs Frequently Fail on Portfolio Strategy and Risk Management
“I think many GPs miss on portfolio strategy. That's probably the place that when we ask questions, GPs just flail about, especially newer or emerging GPs. And they're unaware of the risk characteristics that are different, you know, in a total portfolio versus…”
Eakman: North American institutional LPs fail to properly incentivize investment staff
“I don't think that I'll say writ large North American institutions do a great job of incentivizing their staffs.”
Eakman Advises Founders and VCs to Push Hard for Exits
“Absolutely. Get out if you're even close to the door.”
GPs Hypocritically Pitch LPs With Massive Decks Despite Advising Founders Otherwise
“When GPs come in, I think the mistake they make generally is putting too much in a pitch deck and not limiting and not taking their own advice. They'll tell a company to have a pitch deck with 10 slides in it, And yet they'll show up with a 45 page deck and ex…”
Eakman: UTIMCO Struggled to Attract and Retain Top Investment Talent
“It was always a challenge at UTEMCO to get the very best talent and keep them.”
Eakman: Engaged LP Model Mirrors Traditional VC Support for Emerging Managers
“Our engaged LP role really, to me, is no different than that of the traditional VC. I think of these newer emerging managers as a small company that maybe we could help in their progress.”
Foundry Group Announces New Investment in Resolute Ventures
“I don't think we've announced this yet, but I'm happy to. We are investing with Resolute Ventures.”
Eakman: Highest Investment Returns at UTIMCO Were in Venture Capital
“And yeah, it helped that my best returns were in venture too.”