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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. Extends network dramatically.

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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

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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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 then the network can come to an agreed upon state that says, hey, this is a valid transaction. And so you want a lot of variety in the people that you hire. This one's invalid.

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