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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] - AGILEVC

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I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. NextView’s still in its infancy… we’re barely two years old and are just part of the way through investing our initial fund. But we strive and aspire to build a firm that will excel and be around for awhile. Many of the great VC firms of today have been around for decades. Firms like Sequoia, Greylock, Bessemer, and others. One can study some of the factors of their success and of course try to emulate them or integrate their best practices. I’ll save these for a follow-up post because I think there are some interesting take aways and also some firms that have found hacks to either propel success or avoid pitfalls. But there are firms that were once great and have declined to various extent with the passage of time. There are also VC firms that were once among the industry’s elite that n

The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] - AGILEVC All Lee Hower's Posts Agile VC: My idle thoughts on tech startups The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] Lee Hower July 11, 2012 · 6 min. I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. NextView’s still in its infancy… we’re barely two years old and are just part of the way through investing our initial fund. But we strive and aspire to build a firm that will

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