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

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Pitchbot.vc is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. It’s also clear from our work that there is some confusion in the entrepreneurial community about the different forms of startup funding available.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Those unique assets are sometimes leverageable into a resource for strengthening the university’s tech community.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech: 2016 Update

View from Seed

These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now. On the early-stage side, this includes groups like Assemble , founded by Michael Skok, John Pearce, and C.A. Want businesses with massive reach and international presence?

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How to Get into Venture Capital - An Update

This is going to be BIG.

Today, I want to add two addendum to it, based on the work of two up and coming women in the NYC tech community. Yesterday, Amrit Richmond announced her new employment at RRE as Director of Community & Platform. Christina Bechhold didn''t forget that--and so she co-founded her own angel group.

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One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan

Steve Blank

The TechArb is the engineering student accelerator/incubator (cofounded by the local VC ) and also embraces these ideas. Finally, I was impressed to find a robust local entrepreneurial community centered around A2Geeks and the Tech Brewery (after I met Dug Song I understood why.). (I A Lack of a Startup Culture in the Community.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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