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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally.

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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

Both Sides of the Table

Some of this can be attributed to the exponential growth in e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses as a result of the pandemic and global lockdowns?—?eCommerce Trust is led by CEO and co-founder James Borow , who led Snap’s global programmatic ads platform and grew the self-service ads revenue from 0 to $1B+ over three years.

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

David Teten

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. aggregates resources from all the VCs. Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. Requires ongoing management to keep community members engaged. . AskAnything.VC Customer Development.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. .

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. However, as we got involved in issues like clean drinking water, we realized we’re missing a big opportunity to rally communities around us. Goal: tap into power of developers to solve community problems.

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