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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

The event presenter, FUND, is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. The FUND Conference brings together over 100 startups to present their early-stage products and pitches in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders.

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Startup Accelerator/Funding Opportunity: AEP’s IlluminationLAB

The Startup Magazine

EFFICIENCY, OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE – Digitizing operational activities is an opportunity to aggregate more accurate data (from customers, infrastructures and facilities) which can then be used to improve efficiency. September 12th 2019. Apply Here Apply Here. More FAQ Information. What’s the deadline for applying? April 7, 2019.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” 7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. Here’s What Still Makes No Sense. “Non-partner venture roles are not easy. ” (Lee Hower).

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. I was impressed with his knowledge and thinking after every presentation.

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

David Teten

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. aggregates resources from all the VCs. All content is developed and delivered by the Real Ventures partners. 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 think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. If we were right, we’d see the results in their final presentations – after 8 weeks of class the information/learning density in the those presentations should be really high.

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