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

David Teten

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. aggregates resources from all the VCs. AskAnything.VC

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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. Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy.

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Why Is There So Much Turnover In Venture Capital?

View from Seed

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital? VC economics are backward – looking rather than prospective. Title subtleties.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

The Chinese Social Media Landscape diagram below from Resonance does a great job of illustrating the players in the Chinese market. The downside is that with so much venture and angel capital available, investors have been willing to fund the 10 th Groupon clone. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.)

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. Two events this week in St.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

The Chinese Social Media Landscape diagram below from Resonance does a great job of illustrating the players in the Chinese market. The downside is that with so much venture and angel capital available, investors have been willing to fund the 10 th Groupon clone. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.)

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Maternova and the Business of Saving Lives: A Secret to Success Story

Up and Running

90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. Allyson attributes part of their large reach to Maternova’s strong social media presence, which she says is essential to their marketing strategy. Social media. The quirky and cute Maternova offices.