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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . Julia Rhee , Advisor to Typhon Capital Management, observes, “You need to reverse-engineer institutions’ checkboxes.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

Both Sides of the Table

You need to keep your database in terms of connections and the people you know. “There are so many places you can go on the Net where you can find your community. On being a woman, becoming a mom & forming a sense of identity [20-45 ]. For women - &# Don’t get off the train completely when you have children.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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Introducing our latest investment: Mattermark – Big Data Comes to VC

Version One Ventures

The net effect is powerful: it empowers all of us (no matter who we are or where we are) to learn more quickly, make better decisions, and operate more efficiently. Thus, it should come as no surprise that we are now seeing Venture Capital being disrupted by these forces as well. Today, the boom of information (i.e.

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How to approach and make an introduction to a VC

This is going to be BIG.

Bad intros usually include some service provider, like some high net worth management guy looking to get me to invest with him. You may decide that where you are now compared to where you'll be in three months isn't a good time, and that's fine, but let's not pretend that you're not a tech entrepreneur in the office of a venture capital firm.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital.

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How to choose an investment banker…or replicate one

David Teten

To see why that is, see How much truth is there to the belief that VCs do not work with investment bankers for capital raises? It’s hard to establish a red line between when hiring an investment banker is a net negative, and when a banker is clearly additive. You can also look in online investment banker databases.