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

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . – Hire more Partners.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 6) Due diligence. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Sharp Elbows Among Seed VCs

View from Seed

Historically, seed rounds were syndicated among several different firms. These funds would regularly share deal flow with one another and could share the work in supporting founders and helping to push the company forward. Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market.

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

David Teten

Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns).

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

David Teten

We make a point of keeping our records updated in the major data-trackers tracking the VC industry, e.g., CB Insights , Crunchbase , Dow Jones , Mattermark , Palico , Preqin , Pitchbook , and ThomsonReuters , since they are a source of data to LPs and to potential co-investors interested in us. . 5) Due diligence. Pitchbot.vc

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Detailed due diligence. Profiled initially. 10,000 [v].

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? . However, founders shouldn’t take money from corporate VCs because of an exit expectation. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example.