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The debate of IRR, MOIC, and other benchmarking metrics for venture funds is a hot topic indeed. Great article 👍🏼

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Loved how you broke down the typical fund lifecycle for us

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Great intro!

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it's not the main point, but most (all?) funds have some management fee step down after the initial investment period/when next fund is raised/some sort of milestone.

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True.

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Excellent article detailing the implications of dry powder. It is fascinating to follow the incentive line that you lay out. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

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OMG! I love wet powder. This is exceptional

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Great read! Is there such thing as reserve ratios in LP agreements to ensure some baseline level of capital calls be met?

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Depends on the LPA. can include things like specific deployment cycles, so you have to call everything (not including reserves) within 3 years. But those can also be adjusted with approval from LP committee.

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Wonder if a standard like Dodd Frank could ever emerge for LPs or if it'll always remain LPA-by-LPA

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