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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets. This evolves the VC from a server to a router. engineers, designers, business developers).

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Stealth Mode Startup

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If youve read my Cult of the NDA article (which, by the way, remains one of the most-read articles on this blog), then you know that I think good luck and good execution are far more important to success in a startup than a Really Big Idea. They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. *

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

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Yale has had such noteable alumni successes as Alibaba (Joe Tsai, mentioned below), Business Insider, Dataminr, MongoDB, Pinterest, Twitch, Zola, and many others.