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

David Teten

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. Those folks may be hired in vertical specialties, and the larger and more successful incubators have enough deal flow to keep their agendas filled. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach.

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

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 3) Originate investments.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The new “discovery&# will be a continuous series of events, starting with a niche following and, for the successful artists, gradually transitioning into mainstream success. But the idea of artists being discovered is heading towards obsolescence in a world when anyone can start a personal brand anytime, anywhere.

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Tips for Success via Business Crowdfunding

Hearpreneur

Business owners and entrepreneurs are flocking to a variety of platforms to help give their businesses a needed financial injection from the public. Crowdfunding can range from game developers raising money for an entire game to entrepreneurs finding enough backing to create their next exciting product.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also. Actually, the latter could be a reasonable strategy for super technical entrepreneurs who can sustain themselves without big financing needs (see: Atebits, owner of Tweetie).

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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. So people bullish about drones are pointing to that as a potential seminal event. We’ve decided to share these publicly.