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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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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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Join me at Alpha Innovation Required conference, Sep. 18-19, NYC

David Teten

AIR Summit is a membership organization whose flagship event is the annual AIR Summit event, an invitation-only gathering of senior people across the industry. billion, and 12 have been acquired for more than $6 billion in aggregate since presenting at the AIR Summit. Website: www.airmemberships.com. NYC Agenda: AIR Summit 5.0.

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Otherwise, private owners tend to have unrealistic expectations or an arbitrary sale price expectation. Intermediaries.

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More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo

David Teten

Currently, these Crowdfunding sites don’t give donors any equity in the companies. Online fund-raising has been popular for nonprofit groups and charity events for several years, but it is only recently beginning to spread to other sectors. The factor takes into account funding, comments, shares and other campaign activity.

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SELLING YOUR COMPANY? THE 5 BIGGEST LEGAL MISTAKES

Scott Edward Walker

Big companies and private equity firms will sometimes execute an LOI with the seller in order to create, in effect, an “option” to buy. Obviously this is a bit self-serving, but a well-drafted sale agreement is like a good insurance policy in the event of a dispute or litigation. 1-2% of the purchase price).