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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. Charter Oak Equity LP Fee at close Part of management fee Part of carry.

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

The emergence of these best practices created an opportunity for VCs to become a channel for these best practices, simultaneously improving their service to entrepreneurs and accelerating value creation at their portfolio companies. The GP-LP structure used by most funds is a brake on innovation here too.