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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

Two events this week in St. On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Capital Innovators put on the event, called Demo Day, at the cherished Pageant Theater, which normally is a concert venue. Applications are due by June 15th.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. 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.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. This is a good thing. (I

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What is an employee retention or M&A carveout plan?

Startup Company Lawyer

I was speaking at an event last month to a group of CEOs and was surprised by the number of CEOs that were worried about the value of their common stock in a M&A transaction. Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description. In San Francisco one can find hacking events on a daily basis, as well as many unconference events where people get their hands dirty playing with code. 17 – Be unable to Attract Investors.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Perhaps the seminal bubble-popping event was John Carreyrou’s October 16th investigative analysis of Theranos in the Wall Street Journal. ” Go public.

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VentureGeeks Unveils Pre-Seed Investments in Five Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment. Yesterday, VentureGeeks unveiled its first five investments in their Investor Day event, following the Y Combinator model. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates.