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How VCs Can Accelerate Portfolio Company Returns

David Teten

Koen, Gyorgy, and Adham are all Columbia Business School MBA 2012 students and former consultants with McKinsey and BCG. Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. In an effort to address this, we launched last year a formal study of best practices of VCs in improving portfolio company value.

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Snyk, from first check to leader in dev-friendly open source security

BeyondVC

Our initial journey goes way back as we were investors in Guy Podjarny’s previous company, Blaze.io, which sold to Akamai in 2012. We are purpose built to double and triple-down in our portfolio as they hit milestones and scale their GTM team.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. So, the definition of a lead database has expanded from being Name, Address, Email ID, Phone No, etc., Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do?

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Building and populating databases of user-supplied information and content (copyright). In the mean time, best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy 2012. What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ?

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc.

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Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago

ReadWriteStart

In today’s tech patent wars, you typically need entire portfolios of offensive and defensive patents to make a difference. The company redoubled its efforts to get the patent through just days after it announced on February 1, 2012, that it planned to go public.

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The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

UX Study The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012. September 4th, 2012. This has lead to a massive checkout database with 508 checkout steps reviewed, 975 screenshots, and 3,000+ examples of adherences and violations of the checkout usability guidelines. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns. User Experience.

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