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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

As a result VCs who didn’t want to only compete on price began looking for ways to differentiate their money from the money of other investors and started deploying the strategies listed above. The GP-LP structure used by most funds is a brake on innovation here too. Entrepreneurship is becoming more science and less art.

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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). Question : How do generalist PE funds differentiate and get in the advisers list? Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A.