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

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. For technology vendors and models, see Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments. . For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant. AskAnything.VC

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

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. We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. with the announcement of a funding round, new senior hires, etc.

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

David Teten

ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose. Fincura specializes in serving lenders. 10) Report.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It'd be great if we could somehow hire people all over the world, that would be great. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And we had just had massive challenges trying to move money to the different contractors we were hiring in different places. And so you want a lot of variety in the people that you hire.

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SELLING YOUR COMPANY? THE 5 BIGGEST LEGAL MISTAKES

Scott Edward Walker

A well-drafted confidentiality agreement will also prohibit the potential buyer from hiring and/or soliciting the company’s employees. (I 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.