Who Is A General Partner? In venture capital, a general partner (GP) is an individual or a group of individuals who are responsible for managing a venture capital fund. The GPs are experienced ...

With the growing prevalence of limited liability companies, notable general partnership decisions become fewer and further between with each passing year. A common fact pattern in which increasingly ...

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Many small businesses and investment vehicles are structured with partners. Technically, a business partnership is created when two or more individuals come together for a specific business purpose.

Under ancient (some would argue vestigial) common-law rules of general partnerships, partners can find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place deciding when to pull the trigger on a lawsuit.

Limited partnerships (LPs) are a specific type of business structure that consists of at least one general partner and one or more limited partners. The general partner typically assumes full ...

Eight years after joining Benchmark as the firm’s first woman general partner, Sarah Tavel announced on X that she is transitioning to a more limited role at the storied venture firm. In her new ...

A teenager from Saharanpur who once refused to attend school now holds one of Silicon Valley’s most influential startup roles ...

Nearly 10 years ago, in April 2015, I published a blog called “Confronting the ‘S’ word: Dealing with general partner succession.” As the founder and managing partner of Vintage, I wanted to ensure ...