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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. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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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. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund.

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Targeting New Investors: 3 Must-Have Features of Your Investor Relations Strategy

The Startup Magazine

To make sure they stick around, you need to design an attractive site that delivers the information your investors expect. While end-to-end IR solutions aggregate all your data in one place, a siloed approach separates each process into a distinct tool, isolating analytics from reporting, targeting, and surveillance.

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

View from Seed

A few years ago, a friend of mine who was coming off an EIR gig at a well-known venture fund in Boston ended up joining one of my portfolio companies part-time as a technical advisor / interim CTO. Repeat founders are often excited to “get the band back together” or aggregate talent.

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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

Based on proven neuroscience “brain plasticity,” its product is designed to improve the learning ability of elementary school children and has particular value with under-prepared children, including those with ADHD. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.