While many venture firms focus on a particular phase, Greycroft wants to be "stage agnostic," Pearce says.
Rather than selling individual funds, many firms are focusing on "funds of hedge funds" -- packages that typically contain 15 or more individual funds.
The overall results reveal that many firms' CSR focuses are mainly on occupational health and safety, ethical business practices and environmental management and that their CSR initiatives are very much internally focused.
People do not care as much about portfolio returns as they do about maintaining a standard of living for a lifetime, she said, and many high-visibility firms focus more on returns and less on comprehensive financial planning.
It said many other consumer-oriented firms focused on consumer-packaged goods sold to grocery stores and other retailers.
Many large financial services firms focus on their own reputation, desiring to be known as the "most respected financial services firm in the world".
From inward-looking, tentacled conglomerates, many transformed themselves into global firms focused on particular markets.
Some larger firms focus only on signing up as many cases as possible, and have staff members whose only job is to sign cases.
Many British firms focus on investing in Europe, where the economic outlook is rotten.
Many small firms focus on job boards, with lower advertising costs and a broad range of job sectors from general to niche.
