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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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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

LPs investing in venture hold a subset of all the funds in the VC universe by design (see #4 & 5). It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles.

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

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 4) Manage deal flow. 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc

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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

View from Seed

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

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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. You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You make it happen.

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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 ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? It’s often possible to “ design around ” a patent to operate a business that achieves similar results in different ways.) What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ?