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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. Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices? Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor.

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A. Gebelein, Private Equity Growth Advisors LLC Sven A.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Deep Learning /Neural Nets – a subfield of machine learning. Neural nets are effective at a variety of tasks ( e.g., image classification, speech recognition). A deep learning neural net algorithm is given massive volumes of data, and a task to perform – such as classification. Dedicated chips for neutral nets (e.g.

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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. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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[Event] [Singapore] Techventure 2011 To Introduce Techventure Asiasons Innovation Awards

YoungUpstarts

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

They have enough confidence in themselves to leave without the safety net of a future pension as well as the energy, ambition, and know-how to navigate uncertainty. If you find an A-player CIA officer jumping into a founder role mid-way in their career (or decide to start something yourself,) they’ll probably go on to do great things.

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Resetting venture capital return expectations: is 10x the new 3x?

Version One Ventures

When I started Version One Ventures in 2012, every experienced VC shared the same rule of thumb: we had to return 3x net consistently to stay in business (i.e. 3x the invested capital net of fees over a period of about ten years for a net IRR in the low twenties). The chart below shows the numbers as of June 30, 2021. . .