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

David Teten

Several VCs market close relationships with celebrities who can use their social media presence to promote their companies. In-house, brand-name guru. The ability to answer quickly and confidently when your business model is having holes poked in it during diligence is really powerful. Celebrity Relationships. Advantages.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Los Angeles, at least metaphorically, became more of a media/entertainment town. At the same time, the consumerization of the technology business made Silicon Valley the de facto capital of all things tech. These are businesses aiming for scale and impact, not merely monetization.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Buy And Sell Their Agencies

Duct Tape Marketing

Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. In this episode, she’s sharing how she’s helped many entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses. Questions I ask Amanda Dixon: [1:14] What’s the story behind your company name? [1:57] This is great.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

And it's similar sort of metaphor, you know, like what it's like to be, you know, to start a business. Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. There were so many pieces of the actual business side that I just didn't understand.

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Are Facebook and Groupon Bubbles Waiting To Burst?

Growthink Blog

Goldman Sachs recently sold shares in Facebook at a value of $50 billion , a price greater than that of Nike, Target, eBay, and General Motors, to name just a few. On Tuesday, February 1st, at 1 pm EST / 10 am PST , Troy will share with you which winning business models to run with, the losers to run from, and much, much more!

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. 10) Report.

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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

Both Sides of the Table

. <Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.) They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media.

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