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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. " For major buyers of display advertising, real-time access to the largest audiences on the internet holds the promise of vastly improved targeting and performance. " "Hit it."

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. We believe that opting-out of advertising should be an easy, common and legitimate alternative for ad-intolerant users, provided that the content provider can remain as profitable.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. 16:35-19:35).

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

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Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics. Dan'l Lewin.

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Don’t call it AdTech. It’s “Adhesive”

VC Adventure

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. “We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# And for a while that worked pretty well.

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The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit

Cracking the Code

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Labels: Portfolio , SaaS , software.