--- title: "Blog | LP Blueprint\" | Adam Metz (2)" description: LP Blueprint's blog for capital allocation, GPs and LPs (2) --- [Skip to content](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz/page/2#main-content) - [English](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz) - [עברית](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/he/author/adam-metz) English Show submenu for translations - [Insights](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog) - [About/Contact Us](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz/page/2#contact) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Insights](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog) - [About/Contact Us](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz/page/2#contact) - - [English](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz) - [עברית](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/he/author/adam-metz) English Show submenu for translations - [Contact us](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz/page/2#contact) [Contact us](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz/page/2#contact) # Blog Fundraising, allocation and market intelligence for GPs and LPs. 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Here's what GPs actually wrote back - a... 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[Read more](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/reframing-fund-efficiency-how-we-built-a-benchmarking-model-for-capital-velocity) [![](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/hubfs/blake-verdoorn-cssvEZacHvQ-unsplash.jpg)](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/fundraising-waterfall-the-sales-ops-reality-nobody-tells-you) [fundraising](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/fundraising), [506c](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/506c) ## [Fundraising Waterfall: The Sales Ops Reality Nobody Tells You](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/fundraising-waterfall-the-sales-ops-reality-nobody-tells-you) [Adam Metz](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz) Oct 23, 2025, 9:53:34 AM Your fundraise will take 18-19, maybe 20months. Not 12 weeks. Not six months. Almost two years. And ... [Read more](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/fundraising-waterfall-the-sales-ops-reality-nobody-tells-you) [![](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/hubfs/evelyn-verdin-7aVp13gLZbE-unsplash.jpg)](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/who-actually-uses-506-c-and-who-doesn-t) [Finance](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/finance), [Business](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/business), [fundraising](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/fundraising), [506c](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/506c) ## [Who Actually Uses 506(c), and Who Doesn’t](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/who-actually-uses-506-c-and-who-doesn-t) [Adam Metz](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz) Oct 22, 2025, 9:02:57 AM Since 2020, nearly all private funds - venture, private equity, credit, infrastructure, hedge - have... [Read more](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/who-actually-uses-506-c-and-who-doesn-t) [![](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/hubfs/maeva-vigier-DRTvIHWhW9Q-unsplash.jpg)](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/always-raising-isn-t-strategy-it-s-survival) [fundraising](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/fundraising) ## [“Always Raising” Isn’t Strategy. It’s Survival](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/always-raising-isn-t-strategy-it-s-survival) [Adam Metz](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz) Oct 18, 2025, 12:40:33 PM From the outside, it may seem like GPs (especially in Funds 2-3) alternate between fundraising and i... [Read more](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/always-raising-isn-t-strategy-it-s-survival) [![anchro](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/hubfs/freysteinn-g-jonsson-tZUd3eSvA2o-unsplash.jpg)](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/the-fundraising-execution-gap-what-separated-success-from-failure-in-2023-2024) [fundraising](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/fundraising) ## [The Fundraising Execution Gap: What Separated Success from Failure in 2023-2024](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/the-fundraising-execution-gap-what-separated-success-from-failure-in-2023-2024) [Adam Metz](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz) Oct 17, 2025, 5:37:57 PM The Finding That Matters We analyzed twenty emerging manager VC fundraises in 2023-2024 - ten succes... [Read more](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/the-fundraising-execution-gap-what-separated-success-from-failure-in-2023-2024) [![cosplayimage.jpg](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/hubfs/nate-khant-HAJMTdqcyiY-unsplash-2.jpg)](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/you-re-doing-cosplay-why-excellence-in-your-old-job-is-destroying-your-fund) [Investing](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/investing), [Finance](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/finance), [Business](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/tag/business) ## [You're Doing Cosplay: Why Excellence in Your Old Job Is Destroying Your Fund](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/you-re-doing-cosplay-why-excellence-in-your-old-job-is-destroying-your-fund) [Adam Metz](https://blog.lpblueprint.com/blog/author/adam-metz) Oct 16, 2025, 9:58:44 AM You built a career being excellent. You were a banker, a lawyer, a doctor, or a startup founder. You... 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