Mark Heesen
Mark Heesen
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It's a never-ending battle as to whether to keep it within the corporation. There's pros and cons on both sides.
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A venture capitalist would rather work with three large institutional investors who give him $50 million rather than 10 individuals who give him $5 million each.
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It's not like a venture capitalist is going to see a payback immediately or even in the next couple years.
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Bob Grady has a personal passion that will serve our members well as we broaden our public policy focus. Further, our new board members bring to the association additional energy and enthusiasm for the industry's largest challenges and we are looking forward to another productive year.
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But you also have to be very cognizant and look at why that fund didn't do well, ... It's one thing if it was the economy that helped bring that fund down. But if it was reasons internal to the firm, that's different.
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We are turning away money at this point,
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We are turning away money at this point. We will raise about $25 billion this year. In talking with many venture capital firms, I think we could have raised $100 billion if we wanted that money.
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We're hearing much more about elbows being thrown, especially if you're talking to people in Silicon Valley. There's a lot of competition out there.