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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Goodbye Party Round, Hello Piggy Round: Should Seed Stage Founders Raise From Just a Single Investor?

Hunter Walker

And it hasn’t been a special situation such as the founder as an EIR at said fund, or having been previously backed by that fund at earlier company. d) AngelList Syndicates : I haven’t seen any Syndicate take the entirety of a seed round yet but I’m sure it’ll happen. Are These Rounds Good for Founders?