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

David Teten

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? aggregates resources from all the VCs. Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. – What are your fundraising goals?

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Here’s where machine-learning comes into play to self-correct over time, dynamically adjusting detection algorithms based on experience, aiming to keep everything within a controllable cost/risk limit.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead.

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No Mess (Too Much Liquidation Preference)

ithacaVC

The “no mess” LP issue relates to investors in later rounds of financing (typically Series C and beyond). So, after the Series B round the company would have $13mm of aggregate liquidation preference ($3mm plus 2*$5mm). Yet, it is able to attract more investment capital. Is the $13mm of aggregate LP a problem?

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SELLING YOUR COMPANY? THE 5 BIGGEST LEGAL MISTAKES

Scott Edward Walker

This is the time-frame when the seller (or his investment banker) should be creating a competitive environment, and potential buyers/bidders should be played off of each other. Indeed, this is customary in public deals and large private deals if the buyer is unable to obtain financing and can be as high as 10% of the purchase price.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Derek Manuge, CEO, says that “Corl evaluates startups by assessing the risk-adjusted return of an investment based on over 500 metrics across financial (300+), banking (75+), payment (75+), marketing (25+), and team information (25+). Other firms are using Talent Relationship Management tools, e.g., Thrive. . 10) Report.