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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 to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Greylock Partners.

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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

View from Seed

Many second-time founders take a more deliberate, academic approach to searching for a problem. A few years ago, a friend of mine who was coming off an EIR gig at a well-known venture fund in Boston ended up joining one of my portfolio companies part-time as a technical advisor / interim CTO. 2: Fleeing from the familiar.

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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. In an environment that includes over a thousand medical journals with content that is increasingly complex and fragmented, physicians have grown tired of searching for relevant news.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Highland Capital did a systematic search for who could build a stand-alone contextual ad search company and met with six or seven companies including Mike. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.