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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. This usually takes a lot of time, money, and energy.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. On the other hand, if the program’s portfolio demonstrates that they worked with quite a few companies in your field, you are good to go. Contact accelerator staff. It was all hypothetical.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. Tech stack.

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Best and Worst Practices (Plus FAQs) for Layoffs

OnlyOnce

Promoting the profiles of your former employees on job boards, portfolio lists, etc., But do you really want them to be cut off from their email, calendar, and personal contacts? Shouldn’t you work with them to set up an autoresponder or figure out what happens to their email? Severance is also key. You can’t predict the future.

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Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round.

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

David Teten

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program. To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program. To Apply: Email your resume or detailed LinkedIn profile & short description of why you’re interested in startups, particularly JustLegal, to rc@justlegal.com.